10-K 1 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 Form 10-K [X] Annual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994 OR [ ] Transition Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 For the transition period from _____________ to _____________ Commission File No. 0-2481 _________________________________________________________________ LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 62-0673800 (State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer of incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 5295 Carillon Point Kirkland, Washington 98033 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (206) 828-1902 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (Title of Class) Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes X No ___ Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. [ ] The number of shares outstanding of the registrant's Common Stock was 51,682,483 as of March 15, 1995, excluding 3,646,031 treasury shares. The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $2,992,347,544 as of March 15, 1995. (The term "affiliates" is deemed, for this purpose only, to refer only to the directors of the registrant, to McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. and to AT&T Corp.) DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE Portions of the registrant's Proxy Statement relating to its 1995 annual meeting of stockholders are incorporated by reference into Part III hereof. Such information will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission no later than 120 days after the registrant's fiscal year ended December 31, 1994. TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I Page Item 1. Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Business of the Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Cellular Telephone Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Company's Cellular Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Company's Media Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Mobile Satellite Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Private Market Value Guarantee . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Governmental Regulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Executive Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Item 2. Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Item 3. Legal Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 PART II Item 5. Market for the Registrant's Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters. . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Item 6. Selected Consolidated Financial Data . . . . . . . . . . .30 Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. . . . . . . .43 Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. . . . . . . . . . .43 PART III Item 10. Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 Item 11. Executive Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions . . . . . .44 PART IV Item 14. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules, and Reports on Form 8-K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 1 PART I Item 1. BUSINESS Business of the Company LIN Broadcasting Corporation (the "Company" or "LIN"), through its subsidiaries, is engaged primarily in the business of providing cellular voice telephone and data services. McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. ("McCaw") owns an approximate 52% interest in the Company through a wholly-owned subsidiary, MMM Holdings, Inc. ("MMM"). On September 19, 1994, McCaw became a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T Corp. ("AT&T"). The Company owns cellular interests (i.e., direct or indirect interests in licensees) primarily in the New York, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets. The Company's cellular interests represent approximately 26 million 1994 pops. "Pops" refers to the population of a market multiplied by a percentage ownership interest in an entity licensed or designated to receive a license (a "licensee") by the Federal Communications Commission (the "FCC") to construct or operate a cellular telephone system in such market. Pops do not represent actual subscribers in a cellular system. All of the Company's cellular interests are located in markets where the Company owns a 50% or more equity or voting interest. These markets represent four of the top 10 Metropolitan Statistical Areas ("MSAs") nationwide, including the two largest markets - New York and Los Angeles - in the United States. As of December 31, 1994, the cellular systems in which the Company owned interests had an aggregate of approximately 1,644,000 subscribers and average penetration was 4.26%. The Company's proportionate share of such subscribers (based on its actual ownership interest) was 1,083,000. During 1994, the cellular operations in which LIN had ownership interests produced aggregate net revenues of $1.4 billion. The Company's proportionate share of such cellular operations' net revenues was $959 million. LIN's media operations, substantially all of which were divested in 1994, recorded net revenues of $184 million during 1994. On December 28, 1994, the Company divested itself of substantially all of its television broadcasting operations through the distribution (the "Television Spin-off") to the holders of its common stock of all of the outstanding common stock of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, LIN Television Corporation ("LIN TV"). The number of network-affiliated stations owned by the Company was reduced from seven to one due to the Television Spin-off, with the remaining station also providing programming and marketing services to another network affiliated station pursuant to a local marketing agreement. On June 24, 2 1994, the Company disposed of its interest in the Philadelphia cellular licensee and its interest in the GuestInformant speciality publishing business pursuant to the redemption of the preferred stock of LCH Communications, Inc.("LCH"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. The Company and McCaw are parties to a Private Market Value Guarantee ("PMVG") pursuant to which McCaw has the right to offer to purchase the shares of the Company's Common Stock that it does not already own. For further information and recent developments, see "-Private Market Value Guarantee." The Company, a Delaware corporation, was incorporated in October 1961. The Company's principal executive office is located at 5295 Carillon Point, Kirkland, Washington 98033. Its telephone number is (206) 828-1902. References to "the Company" in this Form 10-K include LIN Broadcasting Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and its predecessors, unless the context otherwise requires. The Cellular Telephone Industry Cellular telephone technology provides high quality service to and from hand-held and vehicle-mounted portable and stationary wireless telephones. Cellular telephone systems ("cellular systems") divide a region into many "cells," each covered by its own low-power transmitter, receiver and signaling equipment (the "cell site"). Each cell site is connected by landline, microwave or other technology to the system's computers in a mobile telephone switching office (the "switch"). The switches control the operation of the cellular system for the entire service area. Each conversation in a cellular system involves a radio transmission between a cellular telephone and a cell site and the transmission of the call between the cell site and a switch. Currently, the radio transmission between the cellular telephone and the cell site is primarily an "analog" transmission. With the current analog technology and the amount of licensed radio frequencies available to the Company, there are capacity limitations in certain areas, especially in large markets like New York and Los Angeles. To relieve potential capacity constraints as well as to provide a platform for future service enhancements, the Company has participated in the development of and is in the process of introducing "digital" service in addition to traditional analog service in all of its cellular operations. The Company has launched commercial digital service in Los Angeles and in New York, and as of December 31, 1994, had approximately 50,000 digital subscribers in those markets. The Company has also installed digital transmitting equipment in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston and is currently conducting subscriber tests of the service. Introduction of 3 commercial digital service in Dallas and Houston is planned for the first half of 1995. The Company is using a digital format referred to as Time Division Multiple Access ("TDMA"), which has been adopted by several major cellular carriers. Other major cellular carriers have adopted an alternative digital format, Code Division Multiple Access ("CDMA"). Digital technology offers many advantages over analog technology, including an initial three-fold increase in capacity, lower costs and the opportunity to provide enhanced services, such as improved data transmissions, short messaging, Caller ID, longer phone battery life and improved anti-fraud features. Because existing analog cellular telephones will not be capable of receiving digital transmissions from the cell site, the Company expects that the conversion from analog to digital will be phased in over a number of years, during which a system will maintain both analog and digital transmitting equipment and will thus be able to serve customers with either analog, dual-mode (analog and digital) or digital cellular telephones. The Company expects that after a meaningful percentage of call volume is handled by the digital network, the capital costs of adding system capacity to support subscriber growth will drop significantly. The Company, along with McCaw and other carriers, increasingly is employing a range of techniques to increase capacity, improve coverage in difficult areas and increase in-building penetration. For example, in New York, the Company has introduced cell sites into Grand Central Station and the Lincoln Tunnel. The Company expects this development to provide it with a competitive advantage by permitting coverage in areas that otherwise are hard to reach and by permitting systems to determine within a few yards where a caller is located. Cellular systems can offer a variety of features, including call forwarding, call waiting, conference calling, voice message storage and retrieval and voice recognition where subscribers can make calls by speaking the number to be dialed. Because cellular systems are fully interconnected with the landline telephone network, subscribers can receive and originate both local and long distance calls from their cellular telephones. The cellular system operator pays an interconnection charge to the local landline telephone company to carry calls placed from a mobile unit to a wired telephone. The amounts paid are subject to negotiation or tariff and FCC regulation and vary from system to system. The FCC granted only two licenses for cellular service with spectrum bandwidth of 25 megahertz ("MHZ") in each market. During its initial licensing of cellular MSAs and rural service areas ("RSAs"), the FCC reserved one license for applicants (such as the Company) that were not affiliated with any landline telephone carrier (the "A Block license") and the other license for 4 wireline applicants (the "B Block license"). Now, subject to FCC rules, an A Block or B Block license may be granted to either a wireline or nonwireline entity, but no entity may control more than one cellular system in any service area. All of the interests held by the Company are in A Block licenses. All cellular phones are designed for compatibility with cellular systems in all market areas within the United States, Canada and Mexico and with all channels allocated for cellular use, so that a mobile unit may be used wherever a subscriber is located. Changes of cellular telephone numbers or other technical adjustments to mobile units by the manufacturer or the cellular service operator may be required, however, to enable the subscriber to change from one cellular system to another. Cellular system operators may provide service to subscribers from another cellular system temporarily located in or traveling through the operator's service area. Such subscribers are called "roamers." The Company, together with McCaw and Vodaphone Group PLC, is creating a worldwide roaming arrangement. A Company customer traveling in the U.K., 19 other European countries, Hong Kong or Australia can, using a cellular phone obtained locally and an easily inserted adapter card provided by the Company, place and receive calls using the customer's own phone number. The Company plans to participate in the continued worldwide expansion of this service. 5 The Company's Cellular Operations Set forth below is information with respect to the seven cellular systems in which the Company owns an interest:
Market Information Total LIN's Interests Population Market B Block Name and Location Equity Voting (000,000s)(1) Rank(1) Competition Cellular One 98.3% (2) 100.0% 15.0 1 NYNEX/Bell New York Atlantic Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Company 40.0% 50.0% 14.7 2 AirTouch Los Angeles Communications Metrocel 60.4% 60.4% 4.3 6 Southwestern Dallas-Fort Worth Bell Houston Cellular 56.3% 50.0% 3.9 8 GTE Telephone Company Houston Galveston Cellular 34.6% 50.0% 0.2 169 GTE Telephone Company Galveston Cellular One 100.0% 100.0% 0.2 N/A GTE (Texas RSA-17) Newton, TX Cellular One 100.0% 100.0% 0.2 N/A Southern New (Connecticut RSA-1) England Tele- Litchfield County, CT(3) communications (1) Source: Donnelley Marketing Information Services estimate for 1994. (2) Includes 5.2% interest acquired in 1994 for approximately $145 million in cash. (3) The Company acquired its interest in the Litchfield County, Connecticut RSA in 1994.
6 The Company believes that its presence in the major markets listed above provides it with a unique position within the industry. In addition to being by far the two largest markets in the United States, New York City and Los Angeles are major national and international commercial centers. The operations in the New York, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and Galveston markets are conducted by partnerships in which the Company holds an interest. The partnership agreements are generally similar and the Company has or shares effective operating control of each partnership. The Company's wholly or partially owned subsidiaries are general partners in these partnerships, and each of the partnerships is governed by a Partners' or Executive Committee consisting of designated representatives from the partners in the particular partnership. In each case, the applicable partnership agreement generally provides that all rights and obligations (other than voting), such as obligations for capital investment, sharing of profits and losses, and distributions, are based on percentage ownership. The participants in each of these partnership or corporate entities are generally responsible for their pro rata share of all capital contributions called for by the governing bodies of such entities, and failure to make such contributions could result in the ownership interest being either forfeited or diluted. Such ownership interests are also subject to restrictions on the owners' ability to sell, transfer, pledge or otherwise encumber or dispose of such interests under certain circumstances. Marketing. In marketing its services, the Company stresses that cellular telephones are affordable and easy to use and produce immediate and direct benefits to subscribers, including increased productivity for the business user and convenience for all subscribers. The Company also emphasizes that it is a locally managed, customer-oriented cellular system operator which is responsive and accommodating to the needs of subscribers. The Company follows a strategy of controlled decentralization which allows each regional manager to adapt the Company's general marketing and incentive plans to the particular needs of the market, to develop innovative uses for cellular telephones and products which are responsive to local needs, and to set goals for its sales force and dealers. The key elements of all such marketing plans are appealing to potential subscribers, creating public awareness and understanding of the cellular telephone services offered by the Company, developing a sales force and dealer network, reducing the initial investment required by subscribers to obtain cellular service and certifying installation centers. 7 The Company is developing additional or alternative means of attracting new customers. For example, the Company has participated with McCaw in developing and test marketing GoPhone , an attractively priced cellular phone that would be distributed through popular consumer retail outlets, such as Walmart, and service activated through a phone call. Marketing costs constitute a significant portion of the Company's operating costs. Total marketing expense per gross additional subscriber is expected to increase for at least the next several years. Subscribers. While subscribers are engaged in a wide range of occupations, they have traditionally been individuals who work in the construction, contracting, real estate, wholesale and retail industries, service industries and professionals. Since these individuals use their cellular telephones during their normal working hours to meet their business communications needs, the Company's systems are used primarily between the hours of 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Increasingly, the Company's subscribers represent major accounts, such as federal and local governmental agencies, national and regional shipping, delivery and transportation companies and other businesses. Although historically a majority of the Company's subscribers are business users, a growing share of new customers use the phone principally for personal convenience and safety. The Company expects this trend to continue as market penetration increases. Over half of the Company's new subscribers purchase a portable unit that is not restricted to car use. The Company believes that hand-held portable cellular telephones will become an increasingly large portion of its subscriber base as the price for such telephones continues to decline. Because of the fixed costs involved in the development of a cellular system, as the number of subscribers has increased the Company has benefited from economies of scale, which have allowed the Company to pass lower rates along to its customers. These rate reductions, in turn, make cellular service attractive to an even larger portion of the population. Service rates have fallen most dramatically for roaming, thereby permitting the Company to expand a customer's "home" area. The Company's proportionate share of subscribers in its markets was approximately 1,083,000 at year end, reflecting an increase of 25% during 1994, including the changes in ownership interests in New York and Philadelphia as discussed earlier. Growth was particularly strong in New York, where the number of subscribers increased over 50%, including those added through the purchase of minority interests in the New York partnership. 8 The Company is subject to significant levels of turnover, or "churn," among its customers. The Company has instituted programs to reduce churn rates and expects the reduction of customer churn to be a major area of focus in the future. Another challenge is posed by fraudulent use of cellular service. The Company and McCaw are continuing to develop an extensive antifraud program to combat this problem, including authentication features to verify the validity of each call, real-time comparisons of actual and normal phone usage and radio fingerprinting. The Company expects to continue to devote resources to protect the integrity of its system. Sales Force, Dealers and Retailers. The Company enlists subscribers primarily through an internal sales force and through a network of independent dealers and retailers. Dealers and retailers are independent contractors who solicit customers on a commission basis for the Company's cellular systems. The Company's dealers either are in the business of selling or servicing cellular telephones exclusively or are engaged in businesses with customers that are likely to become cellular subscribers. The Company has established and is continuing to pursue multi-state dealer arrangements. The Company has several dealer compensation contracts. Most involve a commission which is paid immediately to the dealer, but with the dealer's retention of all or part of the commission contingent upon the customer keeping the service for a specified period of time (generally between three and six months). Such contracts may also involve the payment of a portion of the commission over time, as service is provided to the subscriber. The Company has also been successful in attracting premier national mass market retailers to distribute its products. National Marketing. Increasingly, large customers with nationwide needs for cellular services are purchasing these services centrally. Larger corporations generally require a national sales force, special volume purchase discounts, trial programs, central billing, simple rate plans, and national 24-hour customer service. McCaw's National Account Services Group coordinates these activities with local markets, and certain of the Company's markets contract with this group in order to meet the needs of their large customers. To improve these programs, McCaw is now operating a central clearing house for all new national account orders and shipping of the cellular telephones to national accounts. The National Account Services Group also accredits local installers and establishes McCaw's national corporate price plans. 9 Telephones and Installation. The Company purchases telephones under national sales contracts and, as a means of stimulating demand for cellular service, generally sells phones to its dealers and the major accounts it services directly at prices reflecting its costs. The Company cooperates with several cellular equipment manufacturers in local advertising and promotion of cellular equipment. There are a number of different types of cellular telephones available, all of which are compatible with cellular systems nationwide. Models vary by type: car-mounted, transportable, and fully portable; by type of transmission: analog and digital; by feature, such as: speed dialing, speakerphone, voice recognition and horn alert; and by price. Prices at which telephones are sold to subscribers may also vary by market, resulting in part from local competitive forces. To ensure quality installation and customer satisfaction, the Company certifies installation centers which meet certain quality control standards. Products and Services. The Company generally offers its customers several pricing options in each market. Some options consist of a fixed monthly charge plus additional variable charges per minute of telephone use. A high volume caller might find an option with a high monthly access charge and low per-minute charges to be most economical. Low volume users might choose a different package featuring a lower access fee and higher per-minute charge. The Company also offers plans with access fees which include a specified number of minutes, with established per-minute charges for usage in excess of the included minutes. The Company makes available to subscribers custom calling services such as call-forwarding, call-waiting, three-way calling, no-answer and busy transfer. The Company has also instituted a voice retrieval message system and has or will be installing voice recognition technology in all its cellular systems. The Company also provides news, weather, sports and financial news recordings. The Company has also implemented automatic roaming in its cellular systems. With automatic roaming, the Company's subscribers are pre-registered in cellular systems outside the Company's regions. Such subscribers receive service automatically while they are roaming, without having to communicate with the local office in any fashion. The following were among the products and services that were introduced or under development during 1994: 10 Digital-Based Services. The Company is able to offer or is developing enhanced services to customers who use digital, rather than analog, service, including Caller ID and Message Waiting Indicator. The Company will continue to develop other enhanced services that will be available only to digital customers, which the Company expects will encourage the migration of all customers to digital service over time. Cellular Office Service. Cellular Office Service combines cellular technology with the internal communications system of an individual business or organization. Users typically would be employees of a business who share a workplace, such as an office or a campus. Outside the workplace boundaries, a user's cellular phone will operate as any cellular phone. Within those boundaries, the cellular phone will function as part of the organization's existing telecommunications system (such as PBX). In either location, all users will be linked by the same system, thereby enabling them to reach one another by dialing only internal extensions, to be available through direct dial, and to use the system's voice mail and other functions. The system has been successfully tested and will be available in certain of the Company's markets in 1995. Data-Over-Cellular. The Company has participated actively in the development of recently adopted industry specifications for a packet data technology to be used for transmission of data over cellular communications systems (Cellular Digital Packet Data or "CDPD"). This technology will allow data to be transmitted across existing cellular networks without disrupting or degrading voice traffic and without requiring additional system capacity or spectrum. CDPD is in addition to circuit switched systems, which also permit data communication. Circuit switched data transmission requires the maintenance of a dedicated connection throughout the transmission. CDPD, with its connectionless system, operates at greater speed and higher quality but generally at lesser cost for short transmissions such as e-mail messages. The Company has successfully installed its first CDPD system in a commercial site and expects to begin offering CDPD service in selected markets in 1995. Home Base Station. The Company and other cellular providers are developing and implementing a service for the residential market enabling a cellular phone to operate with both the wireless cellular system and as part of the wired telephone system. In and near the home, the cellular phone will operate as a cordless phone linked through the home base station to the home's wired system. When the customer leaves the home area, the phone will operate as a regular cellular phone connecting to the Company's wireless system. 11 Customer Service. The Company recognizes that being responsive to the problems and concerns of its subscribers is critical in a service business. The Company trains and certifies various agents to provide repair services for the Company's subscribers. The Company continually monitors and provides ongoing training for service centers. In addition, the Company operates its markets through an on-site staff, including a branch manager or managers, technicians and customer service representatives. Customer service is available toll-free 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by simply dialing 611. McCaw National Network. McCaw is continuing the process of linking various regional cellular systems, including the Company's, into the North American Cellular Network ("NACN"), a "national seamless network" permitting cellular subscribers, without making special arrangements, to both place and receive calls anywhere they travel in areas served by the NACN, even if the local cellular service is not provided by McCaw or the Company. All of McCaw's and the Company's markets within the continental United States as well as the A Block systems in most other major metropolitan areas and Cantel, which holds Canada's A Block cellular license, are served by the NACN. Most of the major B Block licensees have formed a national network similar to the NACN, which competes with the NACN. As of February 28, 1995, the NACN served over 8 million subscribers and covered a population base of over 200 million. Ultimately, the Company's goal is to extend this network to permit its customers to place and receive calls effortlessly throughout North America. Cellular Competition. The FCC awarded only two cellular licenses in each market - an A Block and a B Block license. During its initial licensing of MSAs and RSAs, the FCC reserved the A Block license for a nonwireline company (which in each of the Company's markets is the partnership or other entity in which the Company owns an interest) and the B Block license for an affiliate of a local wireline telephone company. Now, subject to FCC rules, an A Block or a B Block license may be held by either a wireline or a nonwireline entity, but no entity may control more than one license per market. Each licensee in a market has the exclusive grant of a defined frequency band within that market. The Company also faces competition for wireless communications services in each market from other wireless technologies which provide many of the characteristics of cellular service. See "-Competition From Other Technologies". Competition is principally on the basis of service and equipment pricing, services and enhancements offered, the technical quality of the system and quality and responsiveness of customer service. Competition may be intense. Under applicable law, the Company is required to permit the "reselling" of its 12 services. In certain larger markets and in certain market segments such as national customers, competition from resellers may be significant. There is also competition for dealers. FCC rules require Regional Bell Operating Companies (the "RBOCs") that become cellular operators to create a separate subsidiary to own and operate cellular systems. This requirement is intended to make it more difficult for these companies to engage in anticompetitive activities, such as subsidizing their cellular operations from monopoly landline revenues in order to force cellular competitors out of the market. There are currently pending several legislative and regulatory initiatives which may affect the Company, including proposals regarding the obligations of common carriers such as the Company to provide interconnection to resellers and other wireless competitors and to offer equal access to interexchange carriers and the right of the RBOCs (which are the Company's primary B Block competitors) to offer or resell interexchange services. The RBOCs have also filed petitions in federal court seeking to exempt their wireless systems from the proscription against offering interexchange service that is contained in the Modification of Final Judgment pursuant to which certain activities of the RBOCs are governed. In light of the uncertainty surrounding these legislative and regulatory initiatives and judicial proceedings, it is impossible to quantify their impact on the Company and the competitive conditions it may face at this time. Competition From Other Technologies. The development of the cellular industry has attracted numerous other companies that desire to provide services intended to compete with the service provided, or to be provided, by the Company. Some of these competitive services are currently available and others have been announced. For example, specialized mobile radio ("SMR") systems, generally used by taxicabs and tow truck services, and other communication services which have the technical capability to handle mobile telephone calls may provide competition in certain markets. One-way or two-way messaging or beeper services that feature voice message and data display as well as tones may be adequate for potential subscribers who do not need to transmit back to the caller. Other two-way mobile services may also be competitive with the Company's services. In addition to B Block cellular competition, the Company and its unconsolidated affiliates expect to face competition from enhanced specialized mobile radio services ("ESMR") operations, such as Nextel, which is providing cellular-like services in the Company's Los Angeles market. Several other ESMR networks have begun operating in other cities; still others are scheduled to begin either operation or construction in 1995 in cities served by the Company's cellular systems. 13 Recently, the FCC allocated a significant amount of spectrum to new Personal Communications Services ("PCS") that are expected to compete with cellular service. On March 14, 1995, the FCC announced the completion of the first phase of its auction of spectrum for broadband PCS. The first phase involved two licenses for 30 MHZ of spectrum in each of the 51 Major Trading Areas ("MTAs"), except that only one license was available for bidding in each of New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., with the other having been awarded under the FCC's pioneer's preference program. In LIN's markets, the pioneer's preference awards were to OmniPoint Corp. in New York and Cox Cable in Los Angeles. An MTA is considerably larger in geographic size and population than a cellular MSA and may include two or more MSAs or RSAs. The New York MTA, for example, covers Connecticut, Eastern New York state, Long Island and Vermont. The Company chose not to participate in the first phase of the auction. The successful bidders for 30 MHZ licenses in LIN's markets were as follows: New York - a coalition of Sprint and major cable companies ("WirelessCo"); Los Angeles - PacTel; Dallas-Fort Worth - a coalition of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, US West and AirTouch ("Primeco") and WirelessCo; and Houston - Telephone and Data Systems and Primeco. In the future, the FCC will auction an additional 30 MHZ license and three 10 MHZ licenses for each of 492 Basic Trading Areas ("BTAs"). BTAs are smaller than MTAs but generally larger than cellular MSAs or RSAs and may include two or more MSAs or RSAs. The additional 30 MHZ license and one of the 10 MHZ licenses in each BTA have been set aside for auction on special terms to small business or minority- or women-owned enterprises ("Designated Entities"). The auction for the 30 MHZ license to Designated Entities was scheduled to begin shortly after the conclusion of the MTA license auction, but the FCC has been ordered to stay auctions to Designated Entities pending resolution of an appeal regarding the special rules concerning bidding on licenses for Designated Entities. The Company will analyze whether to seek additional licenses in these future auctions, but has not yet made any decisions in that regard. Some of the PCS spectrum is already used by utilities, public safety agencies and other entities for fixed microwave transmissions, and the FCC has determined that the existing microwave users must be phased out or relocated to new frequencies once PCS is deployed. However, the FCC's rules enable displaced microwave users to obtain compensation from PCS licensees for vacating PCS spectrum and provide for a transition period before incumbent microwave users are forced to relocate. 14 The Company's Media Operations As discussed earlier, the Company spun-off substantially all its television broadcasting operations effective December 28, 1994 and divested itself of its specialty publishing operations effective June 24, 1994. The Company's results of operations for the year ended December 31, 1994 include the results of these businesses through the dates of their divestiture. Thus, the results for 1994 are not directly comparable to prior years nor will future results be directly comparable to those of 1994. Following the Television Spin-off, the Company continues to own station WOOD-TV, an NBC-affiliated station serving the Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, Michigan market. Station WOOD-TV was acquired by the Company in April 1983 and is affiliated with the NBC network. WOOD-TV's current FCC license expires in October 1997. The Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek market, with a population of approximately 1,666,000, is served by two other commercial VHF television stations which are affiliated with CBS and ABC, by two commercial UHF television stations (one of which is affiliated with ABC and one of which is affiliated with the Fox network) and by three non-commercial UHF television stations. WOOD-TV also provides programming and marketing services pursuant to a local marketing agreement to station WOTV-41, Battle Creek, Michigan, an ABC affiliate operating on UHF Channel 41. WOTV-41's current FCC license expires in October 1997. In addition to network programming, WOOD-TV devotes segments of its broadcasting day to news, local live programming, talk shows, and syndicated and off-network programs. News and community-oriented programs are emphasized and play an important role in the station's services to its viewers. Mobile Satellite Service The Company, through subsidiaries, beneficially owned, as of March 15, 1995, approximately 6.7% of the outstanding stock of American Mobile Satellite Corporation, which has been licensed by the FCC to provide national mobile satellite service. This service is expected to be available by the end of 1995 and will provide full-duplex, digital mobile telephony to vehicle mounted and fixed terminals throughout North America. The Company does not expect mobile satellite service to be competitive with cellular service, but should be a complementary service in rural areas not otherwise served by cellular systems. Private Market Value Guarantee The Company entered into the Private Market Value Guarantee ("PMVG") with McCaw in 1989 for the benefit of the Company's stockholders (other than McCaw and its affiliates). The PMVG applies for as long as McCaw and its affiliates beneficially own 15 in the aggregate at least 25% of the outstanding shares of the Company's Common Stock ("Shares") on a fully diluted basis or McCaw's designees constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company, and any Shares are held by other persons. Status of PMVG Sale Process. Pursuant to the terms of the PMVG, in January 1995 the Independent Directors (as defined below) retained the investment banking firms of Lehman Brothers, Inc. and Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. (together, the "Independent Directors' Appraiser") to act jointly as their appraiser for the purpose of determining the private market value per Share of the Company. AT&T and McCaw retained the investment banking firm of Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated (the "Offeror's Appraiser") to act as McCaw's appraiser. On February 15, 1995, the Independent Directors' Appraiser reported that they had determined the private market value per Share to be $155, and the Offeror's Appraiser reported that it had determined the private market value per Share to be $105. In accordance with the PMVG, Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc. was jointly designated by the Independent Directors' Appraiser and the Offeror's Appraiser as the third appraiser (the "Mutually Designated Appraiser") to determine the private market value. On March 7, 1995, the Mutually Designated Appraiser reported that, based upon its review and subject to the limitations noted in its report dated March 7, 1995, it had determined the private market value per Share to be $127.50. In accordance with the PMVG, the "Private Market Price" per Share therefore was established as $127.50. McCaw must decide by April 21, 1995 whether it desires to proceed with an Acquisition (as defined below). Litigation involving the PMVG process is pending in several jurisdictions. In re LIN Broadcasting Corporation Shareholders Litigation, filed February 17, 1995 in Delaware Chancery Court, New Castle County, Consolidated C.A. No. 14039, is a consolidated action alleging that AT&T, McCaw and MMM have, by their conduct in the PMVG described above, breached the PMVG and certain fiduciary duties. The relief sought includes an injunction prohibiting AT&T, McCaw and MMM from acquiring LIN stock owned by the class members, an order directing AT&T, McCaw and MMM to fulfill their contractual and fiduciary obligations, rescission if a PMVG sale to AT&T, McCaw or MMM is consummated and monetary damages. In Newman v. McCaw Cellular Communications and AT&T Corp., filed March 7, 1995 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, C.A. No. 95 Civ. 1583, the plaintiff alleges that defendants failed to disclose that private market value would be determined in violation of the method set forth in the PMVG by improperly disregarding certain potential purchasers, including AT&T and other unidentified companies, and this action, together with public statements and other actions taken by the defendants, constituted a violation of federal 16 securities law. Plaintiff seeks injunctive relief similar to that described above and monetary damages. In Luke v. Wasserstein Perella & Co., AT&T Corp., McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., LIN Broadcasting Corporation, William G. Herbster, Wilma H. Jordan and Richard W. Kislik, filed March 9, 1995, in New York Supreme Court, New York County, Index No. 95-105973, plaintiffs allege that the Mutually Designated Appraiser was negligent and breached its duty of care, that AT&T, McCaw and MMM were unjustly enriched by such negligence and that the individual defendants may breach their fiduciary duties as Independent Directors. In addition to seeking injunctive relief and monetary damages similar to those described above, the plaintiffs have requested an injunction prohibiting the Independent Directors from approving any sale of LIN for a price less than a properly computed Private Market Price and an order directing the Independent Directors to take all action necessary to determine the Private Market Price and to maximize shareholder value. In all of these cases, none of the defendants have yet filed an answer or otherwise responded to the complaints. All of these cases have been brought as class actions, but no action has yet been taken with respect to the consideration of certifying a class. The Company cannot predict their possible outcome or effect on the Company or the PMVG process at this time. However, the Company does not expect that the ultimate results of any of the foregoing legal proceedings will have a material adverse effect on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows. The following is a summary of the terms of the PMVG: Independent Directors. Three members of the Company's board of directors (the "Independent Directors") will be independent directors as determined under the New York Stock Exchange Rules (i.e., independent of management of the Company and its affiliates and free of any relationship that, in the opinion of the Company's board of directors, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment). The initial Independent Directors are persons who served on the Company's Board prior to the completion by McCaw of its tender offer for the Company. At each annual meeting of the Company's stockholders, Independent Directors will be nominated by the then current Independent Directors and elected by a Majority Vote of the Public Stockholders, as defined below. Independent Directors will be subject to removal only (a) for cause, (b) if a majority of the Independent Directors approve such removal or (c) if such removal is approved by a Majority Vote of the Public Stockholders. "Majority Vote of the Public Stockholders" means (a) the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the Public Shares (as defined below) present and entitled to vote at any meeting at which the holders of a majority of the Public Shares are present or (b) the action by written consent (in accordance with applicable provisions of Delaware law and the 17 Company's certificate of incorporation and by-laws) of the holders of a majority of the Public Shares. "Public Shares" means Shares not owned by McCaw or any of its affiliates. Sale of the Company after Five Years. On or about January 1, 1995 (the "Initiation Date"), the Independent Directors were required to designate an investment banking firm of recognized national standing and McCaw was required to designate an investment banking firm of recognized national standing, in each case to determine the private market value per Share. As set forth in the PMVG, "private market value per Share is the private market price per Share (including control premium) that an unrelated third party would pay if it were to acquire all outstanding Shares (including the Shares held by [McCaw] and its affiliates) in an arm's-length transaction, assuming that the Company was being sold in a manner designed to attract all possible participants (including the Regional Bell Operating Companies) and to maximize stockholder value, including if necessary through the sale or other disposition (including tax-free spin-offs, if possible) of businesses prohibited by legal restrictions to be owned by any particular buyer or class of buyers (e.g., the Regional Bell Operating Companies)." If the higher of the respective final views of the Independent Directors' Appraiser and the Offeror's Appraiser as to private market value per Share (the "Higher Appraised Amount") was more than 110% of the lower of such views (the "Lower Appraised Amount"), then the Independent Directors' Appraiser and the Offeror's Appraiser were to agree upon and jointly designate a third investment banking firm of recognized national standing to determine the private market value per Share (the "Mutually Appraised Amount"). The Mutually Designated Appraiser was required, no later than the 65th day after the Initiation Date, to determine the Mutually Appraised Amount, and the private market price per Share (the "Private Market Price") is (x) the Mutually Appraised Amount, if such amount falls (as it did) within the range of values that is greater than one-third and less than two-thirds of the way between the Lower Appraised Amount and the Higher Appraised Amount, and (y) the average of the Mutually Appraised Amount and the other Appraised Amount (Lower or Higher) that is closest to the Mutually Appraised Amount, if the Mutually Appraised Amount does not fall within that range; provided, however, that the Private Market Price may not be less than the Lower Appraised Amount nor more than the Higher Appraised Amount. Once the Private Market Price was determined pursuant to the procedures provided for in the PMVG, McCaw has 45 days to decide whether it desires to proceed with an acquisition of all of the Public Shares (an "Acquisition") at that price. If McCaw decides to proceed with an Acquisition, it may pay the Private Market Price in cash or any combination of cash, common equity securities and/or nonconvertible senior or subordinated "current 18 cash pay" debt securities that the Independent Directors, after consultation with their investment banking firm, believe in good faith will have an aggregate market value, on a fully distributed basis, of not less than the Private Market Price. If McCaw determines to proceed with an Acquisition as set forth above, it will enter into an agreement with the Company (containing customary terms and conditions applicable in a situation in which the acquiror has an ownership position comparable to McCaw's ownership interest in the Company) and will cause a meeting of stockholders of the Company to be held as soon as practicable to consider and vote thereon. The Acquisition may only be completed if it is approved by a Majority Vote of the Public Stockholders. If McCaw determines not to proceed with an Acquisition, or if despite McCaw's good faith efforts an Acquisition has not been completed within 12 months following the Initiation Date (or, if an Acquisition has been approved by a Majority Vote of the Public Stockholders and is being pursued in good faith by McCaw but has not been completed due to regulatory delays or litigation, 20 months following the Initiation Date), McCaw will put the Company in its entirety up for sale under direction of the Independent Directors in a manner intended by the Independent Directors to maximize value for all Shares. The sale procedures will be set by the Independent Directors and may include, if necessary in order to maximize stockholder value, provision for the sale or other disposition (including tax-free spin-offs, if possible) of businesses prohibited by legal restrictions to be owned by any particular buyer or class of buyers (e.g., the Regional Bell Operating Companies). The Independent Directors will select from among the proposed transactions the one or more transactions determined by them as being most likely to maximize value for all Shares and will cause a meeting of the Company's stockholders to be held as soon as practicable to consider and vote thereon. McCaw will not bid unless requested to do so by the Independent Directors. McCaw will fully cooperate in this process and, if one or more of the transactions so selected by the Independent Directors are approved by a Majority Vote of the Public Stockholders, will cause all Shares owned by it or its affiliates to be voted in favor thereof. Any sale of the Company would be subject to receipt of FCC and other necessary regulatory approvals. If a transaction is presented for approval at a meeting of stockholders as contemplated above and fails to receive the requisite Majority Vote of the Public Stockholders, McCaw will have no further rights or obligations to purchase the remaining interest in the Company, but the remainder of the Private Market Value Guarantee shall continue to apply to the extent described therein. 19 Continuing Stockholder Protections. Except as described above, neither McCaw nor any of its non-Company affiliates may engage in any material transaction (including, without limitation, agreements, such as roaming agreements, which are standard in the industry) with the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than proportionate as a stockholder of the Company) unless such transaction has been approved by a majority of the Independent Directors. Except as described above, neither McCaw nor any of its non-Company affiliates may engage in a merger or consolidation with the Company, or purchase all or substantially all of the Company's assets, unless the transaction is approved not only by a majority of the Independent Directors but also by a Majority Vote of the Public Stockholders. In deciding whether to approve such a transaction, the Independent Directors will be instructed to consider as a fair price per Share the Private Market Price per Share (including control premium) that an unrelated third party would pay if it were to acquire all outstanding Shares (including the Shares held by McCaw and its affiliates) in an arm's length transaction, assuming that the Company was being sold in the manner contemplated above. The Independent Directors will retain independent financial advisors and counsel to advise them with respect to any such transaction. No transaction will be undertaken, and the Company will not take any action, whether or not approved by a majority of the board of directors of the Company, if the Independent Directors determine in their good faith judgment by unanimous vote that such transaction or action would likely depress the value of the Company on the Initiation Date. In addition, the Company will not acquire or dispose of any business (other than acquisitions of additional cellular interests in markets in which the Company has an interest), whether or not approved by a majority of the board of directors of the Company, if the Independent Directors determine in their good faith judgment by unanimous vote that such acquisition or disposition is not in the best interests of the Company. Additional Share Purchases. Except as permitted above, neither McCaw nor any of its non-Company affiliates may purchase additional Shares if, after giving effect thereto, they would beneficially own in the aggregate more than 75% of the outstanding Shares on a fully diluted basis. Corporate Opportunities. McCaw will direct to the Company, and the Company will have a priority right to pursue, all corporate opportunities to acquire interests in U.S. cellular telephone systems other than those in markets in which McCaw has an interest or contiguous to markets in which McCaw has such an interest (in the latter instance, however, only if such market is 20 not a market in which the Company has such an interest or contiguous to such a market). For purposes of the foregoing, a party will not be deemed to have an interest in a cellular telephone system solely by reason of such party's ownership of less than a majority equity interest in a public company having such an interest. The Independent Directors will be afforded an amount of time reasonably necessary to consider any such transaction, consistent with any time constraints imposed by the other party to such transaction, and if and for as long as a majority of the Independent Directors desire to pursue such transaction, McCaw will not separately pursue that transaction. Certain Transferees Bound. Except pursuant to a sale of the Company as described above, neither McCaw nor any of its non-Company affiliates may sell more than 25% of the outstanding Shares on a fully diluted basis to a third party or group unless that third party or group agrees in writing to be bound by the provisions set forth in the PMVG to the same extent as McCaw is so bound. Amendments. The provisions of the PMVG may be amended in any respect not materially adverse to the holders of Public Shares, but only if the amendment is approved by a majority of the Independent Directors. Any such amendment will promptly be disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The determination of the Independent Directors as to whether an amendment is materially adverse to the holders of Public Shares shall be final and shall bind all holders of Public Shares. The provisions of the PMVG may also be amended in any other respect if the amendment is approved by a Majority Vote of the Public Stockholders. The PMVG was amended in 1994 in connection with the Television Spin-off. The foregoing description is only a summary of, and is qualified by reference to, the PMVG, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to this Form 10-K. Governmental Regulation The construction, operation and transfer of cellular systems in the United States are regulated to varying degrees by the FCC pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the "Communications Act"). The FCC has promulgated regulations governing the construction and operation of cellular systems, licensing and technical standards for the provision of cellular telephone service. 21 For licensing purposes the FCC divided the United States into 734 separate geographic markets (306 MSAs and 428 RSAs). In each market, the allocated cellular frequencies are divided into two equal blocks. During the initial application process for MSAs and RSAs, the FCC reserved the A Block frequencies for nonwireline applicants (such as the Company) and the B Block for wireline applicants. Now, subject to FCC rules, an A Block or a B Block license may be held by either a wireline or nonwireline entity, but no entity may control more than one cellular system in any MSA or RSA. The completion of acquisitions involving the transfer of control of a cellular system requires prior FCC approval and, in certain cases, compliance with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 and state regulatory approval. Acquisitions of minority interests generally do not require FCC approval. Whenever FCC approval is required, any interested party may file a petition to dismiss or deny the Company's application for approval of the proposed transfer. When a cellular system has been constructed, the licensee is required to notify the FCC that construction has been completed. Immediately upon this notification, but not before, FCC rules authorize the licensee to offer commercial service to the public. The licensee is then said to have "operating authority." The Company has obtained operating authority for each of its cellular systems that is currently in operation. Initial operating licenses are granted for 10 year periods. The FCC has recently established the procedures and standards for filing renewal applications, filing petitions to deny applications for renewal and conducting comparative renewal proceedings between cellular licensees and challengers filing competing applications. The FCC will award a "renewal expectancy" to cellular operators meeting specific criteria that establish that the licensee has adequately provided service to the public and has complied with applicable rules and regulations. The ruling establishing the process of obtaining a "renewal expectancy" and other procedures for renewal are subject to court review. Licenses may be revoked and license renewal applications denied for cause. In addition, if a renewal expectancy is not granted, a license could be awarded to a competing applicant if it prevails in a comparative hearing. The licenses for the Company's cellular systems in New York, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston are due to expire in 1995 and in Los Angeles in 1996. The Company plans to seek license renewals in accordance with the FCC's procedures. Under FCC rules, the authorized service area for the Company in each of its markets is referred to as the "cellular geographic service area" or CGSA. The CGSA is comprised of the composite service area of the system's cell sites as measured according to a formula established by the FCC in 1992 and contained in its 22 rules. The CGSA may be coincident with or smaller than the related MSA or RSA. The right to serve areas which fall within the licensee's MSA or RSA but outside of its CGSA is exclusive to such licensee for a period of 5 years from the date the licensee receives authority to construct its system. This ruling and the manner in which the FCC defines the CGSA is currently subject to further FCC and court review. At the conclusion of such 5-year period other entities may apply to serve areas within the MSA or RSA that are unserved by the licensee, and the licensee may apply to retain the exclusive service rights within its cellular block. If more than one mutually exclusive application is filed for an unserved area, the FCC is considering whether to use its auction authority to choose a winner or whether to award the area by lottery. In March 1993 the FCC began accepting such unserved areas applications and the Company expects that there will be applications filed for unserved areas within MSAs where it holds the initial A Block licenses. The Company expects that any unserved areas within its MSAs will be immaterial to the Company. The Los Angeles partnership was selected by the FCC to serve areas within its MSA that it has not yet served. In addition, the Company intends to file several unserved areas applications to attempt to obtain rights to serve additional territory. Because of the possibility of other competing applications, the Company has no assurance that these applications will be granted. The FCC requires landline telephone carriers in each market to offer reasonable interconnection facilities to both cellular systems in the market and to disclose how the B Block licensee will interconnect with the landline network. The A Block cellular licensee has the right to interconnect with the landline network in a manner no less favorable than that of the B Block licensee; it may, however, negotiate interconnection arrangements that are not identical to those provided to the B Block licensee in that market. In addition, the FCC is now considering the issue of whether commercial mobile radio services such as cellular should be required to provide interconnection to their networks to other carriers. The FCC's rules also generally require persons or entities holding cellular construction permits or licenses to coordinate their proposed frequency usage and system design with other cellular users and licensees in order to avoid electrical interference between adjacent systems or the capture of another market's subscribers. The height and power of base stations in the cellular system are regulated by FCC rules, as are the type of signals emitted by these stations. In addition to regulation by the FCC, cellular systems are subject to certain Federal Aviation Administration regulations respecting the marking, lighting, siting and construction of cellular transmitter towers and antennas. 23 The FCC has initiated a rulemaking proceeding to update its rules which ensure that FCC-regulated transmitters do not expose the public or workers to potentially harmful levels of radio frequency radiation. The Company does not believe that the standards that have been proposed will have any significant impact on the Company or its services. Applicable law administered by the FCC requires that the total percentage of shares of the Company owned of record or voted by non-United States persons or entities shall not exceed 25%. The Company is also subject to state and local regulation in some instances. In 1981, the FCC preempted states from exercising jurisdiction in the areas of licensing, technical standards and market structure. However, certain state authorities have regulated several aspects of a cellular operator's business, including the rates it charges its subscribers and cellular resellers, the resale of long-distance service to its subscribers, the technical arrangements and charges for interconnection with the landline network and the transfer of interests in cellular systems. The siting and construction of the cellular facilities, including transmitter towers, antennas and equipment shelters may also be subject to state or local zoning, land use and other local regulations. In 1993, Congress passed legislation preempting state regulation of cellular and other wireless mobile carriers' market entry and rates. The legislation permitted states to seek rate regulatory authority from the FCC in cases where market forces are inadequate to protect consumers and, moreover, allowed states that regulated cellular rates before June 1, 1993 to continue doing so pending FCC review of any rate regulation petitions submitted to the FCC before August 10, 1994. Three of the states in which the Company operates cellular systems - California, New York and Connecticut - timely filed petitions with the FCC to continue regulating cellular rates. (Texas does not regulate cellular services.) The FCC has not yet acted on the petitions but must issue a final opinion on them by August 1995. The New York Public Service Commission has adopted certain regulations governing cellular operators in that state. In July 1993, the New York State legislature passed a law that exempted cellular telephone companies from a 45 day notice requirement for certain tariff filings. When the California Public Utilities Commission ("CPUC") petitioned the FCC in August 1994 to allow the CPUC to continue regulating cellular rates, it also ordered cellular carriers to interconnect, upon request, to switch-based resellers at market-based "unbundled" wholesale rates that do not exceed current wholesale rates. Several resellers have requested 24 to interconnect their switches with those of the Company's Los Angeles system. However, due to unresolved technical considerations, no interconnections are yet in operation. Pursuant to the terms of a recent CPUC order, the Company's system and cellular resellers are discussing a test of the interconnection arrangements. The FCC and Congress also are considering proposals to mandate interconnections between wireless carriers (including resellers) in certain circumstances. Any such proposal, if adopted at the federal level, may preempt California's interconnection policies. Employees As of December 31, 1994, the Company employed 1,581 full-time and part-time employees in its consolidated cellular operations (New York and Dallas-Fort Worth), broadcasting and corporate offices. Twenty-seven of such employees, all of whom are involved in televisions operations, are represented by unions. The Company's unconsolidated cellular affiliates (Los Angeles, Houston and Galveston) employed an additional 1,951 full-time and part-time employees as of year end 1994. The Company believes that its employee relations are generally good. Executive Officers The following individuals are currently serving as executive officers of the Company: Steven W. Hooper has been Chief Executive Officer of the Company since March 1995 and Chief Executive Officer of McCaw since January 1995. From 1993 to January 1995, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of McCaw. From 1988 until 1993, he was Senior Vice President-Cellular Operations of McCaw. Prior to 1988, Mr. Hooper served with McCaw as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of its Cable Division and in various financial positions. Tom A. Alberg has been a director, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company since 1991 and Executive Vice President of McCaw since 1990. Before joining McCaw, Mr. Alberg was the Chairman of the Executive Committee and a partner of Perkins Coie, the largest law firm headquartered in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Alberg is a director of Digital Systems International, Inc., Active Voice Corporation and LIN Television Corporation. Wayne M. Perry has been a director and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since 1990 and Vice Chairman of the Board of McCaw since 1989. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Perry served as President of McCaw. 25 Donald Guthrie has been Senior Vice President-Finance of the Company since 1992 and a Senior Vice President and Treasurer of McCaw since 1986. He also served as Vice President-Finance of the Company from 1990 to 1992. Item 2. PROPERTIES To provide cellular service, the Company maintains sales and administrative offices, transmitter or antenna sites and switching offices. The Company generally leases all of these facilities, although it does own such premises where it is in the best interests of the Company to do so. The Company's television broadcasting operation maintains an administrative office, television studio and transmitter or antenna site, most of which are owned by the Company. See Note 4 to the Company's consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K. With the expansion of cellular networks, increased in-filling of existing networks and the coming needs of PCS and other technologies, the demand for cell sites is growing. Increasingly, however, resistance to the placement of new cell sites is being encountered, largely from groups that object to these sites on the basis of unknown, but alleged, health hazards and aesthetic considerations. The possibility of preemptive federal regulation of the location of cell sites is under review by the FCC, but for the foreseeable future siting is likely to remain subject to local regulation. Although the Company has not yet experienced any significant difficulty in locating cell sites, it is possible that this could become a greater concern. Item 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS The Company is from time to time a defendant in and is threatened with various legal proceedings arising from its regular business activities. The Company is also party to routine filings with the FCC and state regulatory authorities and customary regulatory proceedings pending in connection with interconnection, rates, and practices and proceedings concerning the telecommunications industry in general and other proceedings which management does not expect to have a material adverse effect on the financial position or results of operations of the Company. In August 1993 and in December 1993, two dealers for the Los Angeles cellular partnership (LACTC) filed lawsuits against the partnership and certain other parties in California state court, seeking injunctive relief, damages, treble damages, punitive 26 damages and restitution. (Goldenwest Cellular Corp. v. Los Angeles SMSA Ltd. Partnership; PacTel Cellular; The Good Guys Inc., Case No. 715479 (Superior Court of California, Orange County), and Autophone, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co.; Los Angeles SMSA Ltd. Partnership; PacTel Cellular, et al., Case No. 722299 (Superior Court of California, Orange County)). These cases are now set for trial in June 1995 and have been consolidated. The lawsuits allege various torts and statutory violations, including price-fixing regarding cellular equipment and service, below-cost sales of equipment, fraud, interference with economic relationship, unfair competition, discrimination among agents and conspiracy. A third lawsuit addressing similar facts and raising many of the same claims (Cellular Activators, et al. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Company, et al., Case No. 729278 (Superior Court of California, Orange County)) was filed in May 1994. Plaintiffs in this case seek damages in excess of $1,400,000, punitive damages, treble damages, restitution, and injunctive relief. A fourth suit was filed in February 1994 (Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. et al. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Company et al., Case No. VC015535 (Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County)) containing claims relating to equipment sales and seeking injunctive relief, restitution and monetary damages. This case was tried in February and March 1995; after presentation of the plaintiff's case, the judge granted LACTC's motion to dismiss the case in its entirety. In August 1994 a class action was filed against LACTC in California state court on behalf of the partnership's cellular telephone service customers and former customers in the greater Los Angeles area (Thomas and Nicola v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Company, et al., Case No. 734316, Superior Court of California, Orange County). The complaint alleges that LACTC has engaged in price fixing for cellular service rates with other cellular carriers in violation of California law. The complaint seeks actual damages on behalf of the class in excess of $100,000,000. The complaint further seeks treble damages and injunctive relief. A similar class action complaint was also filed in California state court in November 1994 on behalf of the customers of Los Angeles SMSA (Euros Cady v. Los Angeles Cellular Corp., Case No. 739101, Superior Court of California, Orange County). Another similar class action complaint was filed against LACTC in federal court in October of 1994, on behalf of former and current cellular customers of both LACTC and its competitor Los Angeles SMSA. This case also specifically named Los Angeles SMSA and its affiliate AirTouch Cellular (PacTel Cellular) as defendants. (Kagan and Sifuentes v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Company, et al., Case No. 94-6923, U.S. District Court, Central District of California). The complaint alleged that defendants engaged in price fixing for cellular service rates in 27 violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act and sought damages, treble damages and injunctive relief. In March 1995, the judge entered an order granting LACTC's motion for a summary judgment in this case. A class action complaint similar to the Thomas case was filed in November 1993 against PacTel Cellular (AirTouch), Los Angeles SMSA and others in California state court (Garabedian v. California, Case No. 721144, Superior Court of California, Orange County). The complaint, brought on behalf of current and former customers of Los Angeles SMSA and LACTC, alleges that PacTel Cellular and LACTC conspired to fix cellular service prices. Like the Thomas case, the Garabedian complaint seeks damages in excess of $100,000,000, treble damages and injunctive relief. In March 1995, the court granted the motion of AirTouch and Los Angeles SMSA to add LACTC as a defendant in this case, and granted the plaintiffs' motion to certify the class. No trial date has been set in this case. LACTC intends to continue to defend the above-referenced lawsuits vigorously, and believes that it has meritorious defenses to the allegations contained in the complaints. The Company does not expect that the decisions in these legal proceedings will have a material adverse effect on its financial position or results of operations. The Company is aware of an antitrust investigation being conducted by the California State Attorney General involving the pricing of cellular telephone service in the Los Angeles area market from about 1986 to the early 1990s. No formal charge or complaint has been filed. The Company and LACTC are cooperating fully with the Attorney General's investigation and believe that the relevant pricing practices were and are in compliance with the antitrust laws. In August 1993, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of Texas cellular subscribers in state court in Texas (Crowley, et al. v. Houston Cellular Telephone Company, et al., Case No. 93-0879, Harrison County, Texas, 71st Judicial District). The defendants in this action are Houston Cellular Telephone Company, LIN Broadcasting Corporation, Metroplex Telephone Co., McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., and the affiliates of these entities providing cellular service in the State of Texas. The most recent petition, filed in March 1995, generally challenges the liquidated damages and automatic renewal provisions in annual cellular subscriber contracts. Plaintiffs have made the following allegations: (1) the contracts are unconscionable and violate the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act; (2) the liquidated damages provisions contained in the contracts constitute an illegal penalty; (3) the defendants have engaged in an antitrust conspiracy with each other and with their competitors to divide 28 the cellular market in Texas by including the challenged provisions in their subscriber contracts and have therefore violated the Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act; (4) the defendants engaged in a civil conspiracy by which the challenged provisions were included in the subscriber contracts; and (5) the defendants fraudulently concealed their illegal acts such that the running of any applicable statute of limitations has been suspended. Plaintiffs allege two separate sub-classes: the "damages" class, consisting of persons who breached their contracts and were thereby charged liquidated damages; and the "contracts" class, consisting of persons who are currently subject to the challenged provisions in their subscriber contracts. Neither of these sub-classes has been certified by the court at this time. Plaintiffs seek declaratory relief, damages, fees, costs and interest. Written and deposition discovery has commenced. No trial or class certification hearing dates have been set. The defendants intend to defend the lawsuit vigorously, and believe they have meritorious defenses to the allegations contained in the complaint. The Company does not expect that the decision in this legal proceeding will have a material adverse effect on its financial position or results of operations. The Company has been informed that the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas notified the Houston Partnership in March 1995 of that office's intention to file claims against that partnership that are largely similar to the claims presented in the Crowley case. Discussions have been held with representatives of the Attorney General's Office and are scheduled to continue. For a description of litigation related to the PMVG, see "Business - Private Market Value Guarantee - Status of PMVG Sale Process." Item 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS No matters were submitted to a vote of security holders during the quarter ended December 31, 1994. 29 PART II Item 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS The Company's Common Stock is listed for quotation on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol LINB. The following table sets forth, for the calendar quarters indicated, the high and low sales prices of the Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market as reported in published financial sources. These prices reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission and may not necessarily represent actual transactions. The Television Spin-off was completed on December 28, 1994; none of the following prices have been adjusted for that event, but prices for the period including and following that date reflect its effect. Year High Low 1993 First Quarter . . . .. . . . . . $90 $75-1/2 Second Quarter. . . .. . . . . . $101 $80-1/4 Third Quarter . . . .. . . . . . $121-3/4 $98-1/2 Fourth Quarter. . . .. . . . . . $116-1/2 $108-1/4 1994 First Quarter . .. . . . . . . . $117-1/4 $106-1/2 Second Quarter. .. . . . . . . . $122-1/4 $102-3/4 Third Quarter . .. . . . . . . . $140-3/4 $119-1/4 Fourth Quarter. .. . . . . . . . $146-1/4 $133 1995 First Quarter (through March 15, 1995). . . $141-1/2 $120-1/4 As of February 28, 1995 there were 1,311 holders of record of Common Stock (which number does not include the number of stockholders whose shares are held of record by a broker or clearing agency but does include such a brokerage house or clearing agency as one recordholder). The Company has never paid cash dividends on its Common Stock. The Board of Directors will determine future dividend policy based on the Company's results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements and other circumstances. The Company's Bank Credit Facilities (described below) restrict the Company's ability to pay dividends to its stockholders. There are also restrictions on the ability of the Company's operating subsidiaries to pay dividends to the Company. It is not anticipated that any cash dividends will be paid on Common Stock in the foreseeable future. 30 Item 6. SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA Set forth below is selected consolidated financial data of the Company for the past five years. This data should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements of the Company and the notes thereto for the corresponding periods which are contained elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
Year Ended December 31, (In thousands, except per share data) 1994(1) 1993 1992 1991 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Statement of Operations Data: Net revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $876,469 $688,557 $572,521 $468,137 $378,089 Operating income . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206,110 128,305 130,015 81,430 134,912 Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates. . . . . . . . 115,010 103,125 96,977 82,338 70,607 Cumulative effect of the change in accounting for income taxes . . . . . . -- -- -- (693,835) (2) -- Net income (loss). . . . . . . . . . . . . $564,150 (3) $(60,727) $(68,952) $(838,131) $(222,844) (4) Per Share Amounts: Income (loss) before cumulative effect of the change in accounting for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.84 $(1.18) $(1.34) $(2.81) $(4.33) Cumulative effect of the change in accounting for income taxes. . . . . . . -- -- -- (13.50) -- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- Net income (loss). . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.84 $(1.18) $(1.34) $(16.31) $(4.33) ======== ======== ======== ======== ======== Average common and common equivalent shares outstanding(5) 52,040 51,445 51,417 51,395 51,455 Balance Sheet Data: Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. . . . . . . . . . $47,467 $102,831 $122,495 $108,924 $63,809 Working capital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . (171,948) (69,269) (6,580) 27,698 63,234 Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,923,873 2,909,523 2,862,910 2,798,944 2,693,117 Long-term debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,443,125 1,551,447 1,694,338 1,769,682 1,716,250 Redeemable preferred stock of a subsidiary. . . . . . . . . . . . . -- 1,305,248 1,170,948 1,036,648 902,348 Stockholders' equity (deficit) . . . . . . $297,738 $(1,102,365) $(1,046,736) $(978,573) $(142,334)
31 (1) On June 24, 1994, the Company disposed of its equity interest in the Philadelphia cellular operations and its GuestInformant specialty publishing business in connection with the redemption of the LCH preferred stock. On December 28, 1994, the Company completed the Television Spin-off. As a result of these transactions, results of operations and financial position as of and for the year ended December 31, 1994 are not directly comparable to prior periods. (2) The Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes", effective January 1, 1991. The effect of the adoption was the $693.8 million charge for the cumulative effect of the change in accounting and an increase in deferred taxes. (3) Includes a gain of $468.7 million related to the redemption of the LCH Preferred Stock. (4) Includes nonrecurring charges associated with the completion of the tender offer by McCaw of $292.9 million on a pre-tax basis and $245.6 million on an after-tax basis. (5) Common equivalent shares are included only in 1994, since they would be antidilutive in all other years. 32 Selected Proportionate Cellular Operating Data The following table sets forth unaudited supplemental financial data for the Company's cellular segment reflecting proportionate consolidation of entities in which the Company has an interest. This presentation differs from the consolidation methodology used to prepare the Company's principal financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (see Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements).
Year Ended December 31, (Dollars in thousands) 1994(1) 1993 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net revenues $959,174 $755,336 $609,426 Direct costs and expenses 292,494 222,308 172,523 Marketing 263,560 176,298 144,238 Depreciation and amortization 154,277 139,224 126,841 Loss on disposal of fixed assets -- 23,589 -- --------- --------- --------- Total operating costs 710,331 561,419 443,602 --------- --------- --------- Operating income - proportionate basis $248,843 $193,917 $165,824 ========= ========= ========= Cellular systems: Proportionate subscribers (2) 1,083,000 865,000 649,000 Proportionate pops (3) 26,000,000 27,200,000 26,900,000 Operating Income Reconciliation From Consolidation/Equity Accounting to Proportionate Accounting Operating income - Consolidation/equity method (4) $148,153 $77,993 $77,273 Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates 115,010 103,125 96,977 Minority interests in net income of consolidated subsidiaries (26,874) (3,896) (18,856) Net income tax expenses included in equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates and minority interests (5) 6,677 5,901 5,222 Other adjustments (6) 5,877 10,794 5,208 --------- --------- --------- Operating income - proportionate basis (see above) $248,843 $193,917 $165,824 ========= ========= =========
33 ------------------------ (1) On June 24, 1994, the Company disposed of its equity interest in the Philadelphia cellular operation in connection with the redemption of the LCH preferred stock. On May 31, 1994, the Company acquired an additional 5.2% interest in the New York cellular operations. The proportionate operating data reflect these changes in ownership from the dates of the transactions. (2) Calculated by multiplying (i) the total subscribers of a licensee in which, as of the date specified, the Company owned an interest by (ii) the percentage ownership interest in that licensee which the Company owned on such date. (3) Calculated by multiplying (i) the Donnelley Marketing Service estimate of current year population in a market by (ii) the percentage ownership interest that the Company owned in a licensee. (4) See Note 12 to the Company's consolidated financial statements - "Segment Data." (5) Includes a $(2,766) cumulative effect of accounting change during 1993 due to the adoption of SFAS No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes," at the Company's former Philadelphia cellular affiliate. (6) Elimination of interest income, interest expense and other non-operating income and expenses included in equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates and minority interests. Such amounts include $3,902 for 1994, $5,715 for 1993 and $1,582 for 1992 due to equity in losses and interest expenses at the former Philadelphia affiliate due to that entity's ownership of an interest in a cable system operator. 34 Item 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS RESULTS OF OPERATIONS The FCC has allocated additional spectrum for mobile communication services and recently concluded auctions for licenses to a significant portion of this spectrum. Federal and state authorities are also considering proposals that may result in the modification of rights held by providers of mobile communications services and the modification of relationships between facilities-based cellular carriers and resellers of cellular services. See "Business - The Company's Cellular Operations-Cellular Competition" and "Governmental Regulation". The Company believes these initiatives will result in additional competition for the Company. The FCC has already authorized one entity to provide a cellular-like mobile service in certain markets of the Company (in addition to the B Block cellular competition). Other entities have submitted winning bids in recent auctions for personal communication services licenses and are expected to launch service within the next few years. The Company also intends to pursue rights to offer additional mobile communications services. In light of the uncertainty as to the eventual outcome of any of these specific initiatives, including the nature and timing of the additional competitive services covered thereby, it is impossible to quantify at this time the impact of these legislative and regulatory initiatives or such competition on the Company at this time. 1994 COMPARED TO 1993 LIN completed two transactions during 1994 which, together, had a significant effect on the Company's results of operations for the year and financial position as of December 31, 1994. On June 24, 1994, LCH Communications, Inc. ("LCH"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, redeemed all of its outstanding Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "LCH Preferred Stock") held by Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. in exchange for all of the capital stock of a subsidiary of LCH, whose assets consisted primarily of a 49.99% interest in the Philadelphia cellular system and the GuestInformant specialty publishing business, plus $12.3 million cash (which represented 15% of the fair market value of the WOOD-TV business). The Company recognized a non-cash tax-free gain of $468.7 million in connection with this transaction. The Company's results of operations include the results of the consolidated publishing business and the equity investment in the Philadelphia operations through June 24, 1994. On December 28, 1994, the Company distributed all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of its previously wholly-owned subsidiary LIN TV. The LIN TV operations comprised substantially all of the Company's former television broadcasting operations. The distribution was made in the form of a dividend payable to holders 35 of record of the Company's common stock at the close of business on December 9, 1994. The Company's shareholders of record on that date received one share of LIN TV common stock for each two shares of the Company's common stock owned. The consolidated financial statements reflect an increase in the Company's additional paid-in capital of $41.25 million, representing the negative net book value of the assets and liabilities distributed. The results of operations of LIN TV are included through December 28, 1994. LIN reported consolidated net revenues of $876.5 million for 1994, an increase of 27% over 1993 net revenues of $688.6 million, primarily due to continued strong growth in cellular subscribers. The Company recorded consolidated net income for 1994 of $564.2 million, or $10.84 per share, compared to a consolidated net loss of $60.7 million, or $1.18 per share, for 1993. The 1994 results include a non-recurring gain of $468.7 million and a cessation of the preferred stock dividends in the second quarter as a result of the redemption of the LCH Preferred Stock. Revenues Net revenues in 1994 for LIN's consolidated cellular operations (principally New York and Dallas-Fort Worth) increased 33% from 1993. This increase was primarily the result of a 38% increase in average subscribers, offset, in part, by a 3% decline in average revenue per subscriber, a trend that the Company expects will continue for at least the next several years. The decrease in average revenue per subscriber is primarily the result of a lower average rate per minute, a decline in long distance revenues per subscriber and a slight decline in average minutes of use per subscriber. The average rate decreased due to a number of factors, including promotional activities and pricing changes, which were offset in part by a change in the mix of customers. Long distance revenues per subscriber have declined primarily due to the October 1993 implementation of equal access at the Company's Los Angeles and Houston cellular operations, where the cellular long distance service operations are wholly-owned by the Company. The overall demand for wireless services continued to expand during 1994 and the Company expects to benefit from the anticipated continuation of this trend in the future, although there can be no assurance that this trend will continue at the same rate as it has historically. The Company is actively working toward improving the accessibility and value of cellular service in the future by participating in the development and deployment of important new services to complement the basic services now offered. During 1994, the Company continued to market enhanced cellular services in various of its markets including enhanced directory assistance, voice recognition, and data transmission services. The Company also introduced digital cellular service in New York during the first half of 1994 and continued to increase the market penetration of 36 digital service in Los Angeles. The Company plans to introduce commercial digital service in its Dallas and Houston operations during 1995. During 1995 and beyond, the Company currently plans to implement such additional service improvements as digital messaging service, Caller ID and cellular digital packet data service. The expansion of digital service generally will increase the capacity of the Company's systems, while providing benefits to customers such as the enhanced services available only through the digital network and the longer battery life of digital phones. Continued growth in demand for basic cellular service, as well as demand for new services such as those discussed above should contribute to continued cellular revenue growth for the Company as well as mitigate the trend of declining revenue per subscriber. Media revenues increased 9% from 1993, due to continued improvement in both the national economy and the local economies where the Company operated, which stimulated growth in advertising spending. Due to the transactions discussed above, results of media operations in 1994 are not directly comparable to results of prior years, and media revenues are not expected to constitute a significant portion of the Company's revenues in the future. Operating Costs and Expenses Direct operating expenses increased 13% from 1993 and represented 16% of net revenues versus 18% in 1993. This increase reflects increased cellular network operating expenses due to the subscriber growth and increased network size, an increase in television news and programming expenses and an increase in direct cellular fraud costs. The decline in direct operating expenses as a percentage of net revenues was primarily due to efficiencies in cellular network operations as well as a decline, as a percentage of revenues, in amounts paid to long distance carriers for long distance service that was resold by the Company to its subscribers. Selling, general and administrative expenses increased 45% from 1993 and increased to 43% of net revenues in 1994 versus 38% in 1993. The most significant reason for this increase was an increase in marketing expenses associated with the increase in new cellular subscribers. The Company added 59% more new subscribers in 1994 than in 1993. The cost per new subscriber added increased slightly and is expected to continue to increase for at least the next several years. The Company also had a large increase in costs related to cellular customer service and support. This reflects increases in customer support, billing, administration and other general expenses, including an increase in personnel necessary to administer cellular fraud related issues. The Company expects that operating expenses will continue to grow in the future as the subscriber base expands and additional services are provided. 37 However, the Company continues to invest in equipment and personnel to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of customer support and administration. Depreciation increased principally due to the addition of property and equipment to expand and improve the Company's cellular systems. The Company anticipates continued growth in depreciation expense in the future as additional capital expenditures will be required to support growth in the cellular subscriber base and to provide enhanced cellular services, including digital cellular. Amortization expense increased due to the effect of acquisitions as discussed in "Liquidity and Capital Resources" below. Absent any new acquisitions, annual amortization expense should decrease by approximately $15 million during 1995 as certain intangible assets became fully amortized in December 1994. During 1994, the Company completed the replacement of substantially all of the switching and cell site equipment in its Dallas operations (see further discussion in "Liquidity and Capital Resources"). The loss realized upon sale of the old cellular equipment at an amount less than its carrying value was provided for in 1993. Other Income and Expenses Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates rose 12% due to improved results at the affiliates, offset, in part, by the effect of the disposition of the Philadelphia affiliate in June 1994 as discussed earlier. Net revenues of these ventures increased 12 due primarily to an increase in subscribers offset, in part, by a decrease in average revenue per subscriber as well as the disposition of the Philadelphia affiliate. The trend of declining revenue per subscriber was consistent with that of LIN's consolidated cellular operations. Direct operating expenses of these ventures increased 28% and represented 12% of revenues versus 11% in the prior year. The increase was attributable primarily to increased network operations, long distance and roamer fraud expenses, offset in part by the effect of the Philadelphia disposition. Selling, general and administrative expenses of the ventures increased 18% and represented 41% of revenues versus 39% in the prior year. Selling expenses increased 17%, driven by an increase in new customer additions. General and administrative expenses also continued to increase as a result of the growth in subscribers. Depreciation and amortization expense of these ventures increased 1%, reflecting additional capital expenditures for cellular network capacity and coverage expansion, digital equipment conversion, offset in part by the Philadelphia disposition. Net other expense declined due to the Philadelphia disposition and as a result of litigation settlements in 1993. 38 Interest expense (which includes the amortization of the financing and commitment fees) increased $16.2 million from 1993 due primarily to higher interest rates. The Company's weighted average interest rate on its borrowings was 5.79% during 1994 and 4.94% during 1993. As required under its Bank Credit Facilities (as defined below), the Company has entered into interest rate cap agreements. See Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements contained elsewhere in this Form 10-K. Minority interests in net income of consolidated subsidiaries increased $23.0 million primarily due to an increase in the net income of the Dallas and New York cellular operations, offset in part by a decrease in the minority interest accrual for the New York operation in 1994 as a result of the Company's acquisition of additional interests in that market in May 1994 (see Liquidity and Capital Resources). The increase in the net income of the Dallas operation was due in part to a $42.2 million loss incurred in 1993 as a result of the write-down and subsequent disposition of a substantial portion of cellular equipment. As discussed previously, the LCH Preferred Stock was redeemed in the second quarter of 1994. See further discussion in Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements. As a result, the Company is no longer required to accrue preferred stock dividends, which accrued at the rate of 15.8% annually, thereby reducing provisions for preferred stock dividends by approximately $100 million from 1993. The Company's effective tax rate of 31.5% in 1994 was substantially lower than the 47.2% in 1993 primarily due to the additional tax expense of $15.3 million recorded during 1993 as a result of the increase in the corporate tax rate from 34% to 35%. Pursuant to SFAS No. 109, the Company was required to record this one-time additional tax expense, and corresponding increase in deferred tax liability, as a result of the increase in the statutory tax rate. 1993 COMPARED TO 1992 LIN reported net revenues of $688.6 million for 1993, an increase of 20% over 1992 net revenues of $572.5 million. Consolidated cellular revenues increased 28% as strong cellular subscriber growth continued. Media revenues were up 2% from 1992. The Company recorded a consolidated net loss for 1993 of $60.7 million, or $1.18 per share, compared to a consolidated net loss of $69.0 million, or $1.34 per share, for 1992. 39 Revenues Net revenues for LIN's consolidated cellular operations (principally New York and Dallas) increased 28% from 1992. This increase was primarily the result of a 29% increase in average subscribers, offset, in part, by an 1% decline in average revenue per subscriber. The decrease in average revenue per subscriber is primarily the result of a lower average rate per minute offset by an increase in average minutes of use per subscriber. The average rate has decreased due principally to pricing actions such as actual rate decreases and/or including more minutes for a fixed price. Net revenues from the media segment increased 2% from 1992. However, excluding cyclical political and Olympics revenues from both years, the increase was 6%. Operating Costs and Expenses Direct operating expenses increased 11% from 1992 and represented 18% of net revenues versus 19% in 1992. This increase reflects increased cellular network operating expenses due to the subscriber growth and increased network size, as well as increased television news and programming expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses increased 27% from 1992 and increased to 38% of net revenues in 1993 versus 36% in 1992. Among the factors contributing to the increase are additional marketing expenses associated with the increase in new cellular subscribers. The Company added 20% more new subscribers in 1993 than in 1992. The Company also had a large increase in costs related to cellular customer service and support. Depreciation increased principally due to the addition of property and equipment to expand and improve the Company's cellular systems. The loss on disposal of cellular equipment in 1993 reflects the loss realized on the replacement of cellular network equipment in Dallas-Fort Worth as discussed earlier. Other Income and Expenses Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates rose 6%. Revenues of these ventures increased 16% due primarily to an increase in subscribers offset, in part, by a decrease in average revenue per subscriber. Direct operating expenses of these ventures increased 24% and represented 11% of revenues versus 10% in the prior year. This increase is due primarily to increased network operations, toll and roamer expenses at those cellular operations. Selling, general and administrative expenses of the ventures increased 17% and represented 39% of revenues in 1993 and in 1992. The majority of this increase was due to increased marketing and sales expenditures associated with a 28% increase in the number of new customers. Depreciation expenses of these ventures increased 40 33%, reflecting additional capital expenditures for capacity expansion and increased coverage in all the ventures, and digital service equipment in Los Angeles. Other expenses also grew significantly due to settlement of certain lawsuits and equity in losses of a cable affiliate absorbed by Philadelphia. Interest expense (which includes the amortization of the financing and commitment fees) decreased $29.8 million from the 1992 amount due to lower interest rates and debt levels. The Company's weighted average interest rate on its borrowings was 4.94% during 1993 and 6.43% during 1992. This decrease was due both to reductions in the base borrowing rates as well as the applicable margin the Company pays. The reduction in borrowings was the result of scheduled principal repayments on the Bank Credit Facilities. Minority interests in net income of consolidated subsidiaries decreased $14.9 million primarily due to the equipment write-down incurred at the Dallas cellular operations as discussed above. As mentioned above, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 increased the corporate tax rate to 35% from 34%, effective as of January 1, 1993. Pursuant to SFAS No. 109, the Company recorded an additional tax expense of $15.3 million, with a corresponding increase in deferred tax liability. LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES The Company utilizes capital primarily to expand and improve its cellular systems, to make acquisitions of cellular interests and to make interest and principal payments on its indebtedness. The Company's cellular operations continue to require substantial capital to increase system capacity and coverage areas, to enable provision of new services, and to expand and improve administrative support systems. During 1994, the Company completed the replacement of the existing cellular system in Dallas with a new system provided by L.M. Ericsson, the system vendor in all of the Company's markets. The capitalized costs for this project were approximately $100 million, of which approximately $45 million and $55 million was expended during 1994 and 1993, respectively. Additionally, the Company continued to invest in the conversion to digital cellular equipment and now has introduced commercial digital service in both New York and Los Angeles. The Company expects to begin providing digital service in Dallas and Houston in 1995. Although the conversion to digital services requires significant initial capital and marketing expenditures, there are several advantages such as an immediate three-fold capacity expansion and the establishment of a platform for future service enhancements, including short message transmission caller ID, improved data transmission and longer phone battery life. The Company's share of expenditures in connection with the expansion of digital cellular service totaled approximately $30 million during 41 1994. Because of the large number of current customers with analog cellular phones that are not able to utilize the digital cellular service, the Company expects that the conversion from analog to digital service will be phased in over a number of years, during which time the Company will maintain both analog and digital transmitting equipment. During 1995, the Company expects that it will continue to invest capital to support the growth of its businesses, including implementation of digital networks and microcells, at levels similar to or in excess of its 1994 capital expenditure levels. In May 1994, the Company completed the acquisition of an additional 5.2% interest in the New York cellular market for approximately $145 million cash and a 100% interest in the Connecticut RSA-1 adjacent to the New York market for approximately $30 million cash. The Company's principal sources of funds are provided by operations and two bank credit facilities, a senior secured facility and a senior unsecured facility (together, the "Bank Credit Facilities"). The $200 million senior unsecured financing was established in June 1994. Under the Bank Credit Facilities, the Company had $1.6 billion outstanding and $220 million available as of December 31, 1994. The Company anticipates drawing on the available funds in 1995. All of the Company's cellular operations are owned by its wholly-owned subsidiary LIN Cellular Network, Inc. and are subject to the restrictions of the Bank Credit Facilities. With limited exceptions, none of the cash flows, proceeds of borrowings or proceeds from sales of assets from these operations are available to meet the cash needs of the Company for operations other than cellular operations. The Company's other assets not described above (principally its remaining television broadcasting interests and an interest in a mobile satellite corporation and some of its cash) are held free of any restriction. Under its Bank Credit Facilities, the Company must remain in compliance with a series of financial covenants which compare the levels of the Company's indebtedness to its cash flows as of the end of each quarter. As of December 31, 1994, the Company was in compliance with all covenants under the Bank Credit Facilities. However, if the Company fails to service its indebtedness, or satisfy or obtain waivers from the covenants contained in the Bank Credit Facilities, the Company will be in default. In such an event, holders of the Company's indebtedness will be able to exercise their rights including the right to declare all the borrowed funds and interest thereon immediately due and payable. If the Company were unable to repay such indebtedness, the holders of such indebtedness could proceed against their collateral, if any. The ability of the Company to comply with these provisions may be affected by events beyond its control. Substantially all of the Company's assets, including its stock in 42 subsidiaries and its ownership interests in entities holding cellular licenses, are pledged or encumbered as security for indebtedness. Further details with respect to the Company's Bank Credit Facilities are contained in Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements contained elsewhere in this Form 10-K. The Company's indebtedness is due and payable over several years, with the amortization increasing significantly during the next few years. While the Company expects to have sufficient funds from operations and available under the Bank Credit Facilities to fund its operations and repay its indebtedness when due, there can be no assurance that this will occur as the Company continues to have substantial debt service and other operating and capital requirements. If cash generated from operations is not sufficient to fund those requirements, the Company will have to modify its operations or borrow additional amounts under its Bank Credit Facilities. There are conditions which must be satisfied before the banks will be required to lend those additional amounts. If these conditions are not satisfied, the banks may conclude it is not in their best interest to lend additional amounts to the Company. If the Company were unable to borrow the required amounts from the banks, it may seek to refinance the Bank Credit Facilities, issue additional debt through a private or public offering, sell equity or sell certain cellular interests or other assets. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to obtain such refinancings, additional financing or asset sales when needed, or if carried out, that the terms will be favorable to the Company or its stockholders. Cash provided by operating activities totaled $216.8 million in 1994, compared to $221.0 million in 1993. The decrease was primarily due to an increase in income tax payments and interest expense and a reduction of cash received from equity affiliates. The reduction in cash received from equity affiliates was due primarily to significant additional capital expenditures of both the Los Angeles and Houston cellular affiliates as those operations expand their digital cellular networks. As of December 31, 1994, the Company had a deficit in working capital of $171.9 million, compared to a deficit of $69.3 million as of December 31, 1993. Among the factors contributing to the increased deficit are higher capital expenditures to support cellular subscriber growth and digital implementation and an increase in cellular marketing and operating costs in connection with the accelerated cellular subscriber growth. The Company expects that additional borrowings on its Bank Credit Facilities may be required to meet short-term liquidity needs, particularly if the rapid growth in cellular subscribers continues. 43 The Company used $327.5 and $168.5 million of cash and cash equivalents for investing activities during 1994 and 1993, respectively, primarily as a result of capital expenditures and cellular acquisitions. As of December 31, 1994, the Company did not have any commitments that, in the aggregate or individually, were material to the Company, other than lease commitments discussed in Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements. During 1994, the Company made scheduled principal repayments of $135.5 million on its Bank Credit Facilities compared to $71.4 million during 1993. Scheduled principal payments on the Bank Credit Facilities increase to $151.9 million during 1995. It is the Company's policy to carefully monitor the state of its business, cash requirements and capital structure. From time to time, the Company may enter into transactions pursuant to which debt is extinguished, including sales of assets or equity, joint ventures, reorganizations or recapitalizations. There can be no assurance that any further such transactions will be undertaken or, if undertaken, will be favorable to stockholders. Inflation The Company believes that its businesses are affected by inflation to an extent no greater than other businesses are generally affected. Item 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA The Company's consolidated financial statements and supplementary data, together with the report of Ernst & Young LLP, independent auditors, are included elsewhere herein. Reference is made to the "Index to Financial Statements" immediately preceding page F-1. Item 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE None. 44 PART III Item 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT There is hereby incorporated by reference the information under the captions "Election of Directors" and "Certain Transactions" in the Company's Proxy Statement relating to its 1995 annual meeting of stockholders (the "Proxy Statement") and under "Business - Employees" contained in this Form 10-K. Item 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION There is hereby incorporated by reference the information under the captions "Election of Directors" and "Executive Compensation" in the Proxy Statement. Item 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT There is hereby incorporated by reference the information under the captions "Principal Stockholders," "Election of Directors," "Security Ownership of Management" and "Beneficial Ownership of Common Stock of AT&T" in the Proxy Statement. Item 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS There is hereby incorporated by reference the information under the captions "Election of Directors" and "Certain Transactions" in the Proxy Statement. 45 PART IV Item 14. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES, AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K (a)(1) Financial Statements Filed Report of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company - Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 1994 and 1993 - Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 - Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 - Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 - Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Report of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors Independent Auditors' Report Report of Independent Public Accountants Combined Financial Statements of the Company's Unconsolidated Affiliates - Combined Balance Sheets at December 31, 1994 and 1993 - Combined Statements of Income for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 - Combined Statements of Ventures' Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 - Combined Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 - Notes to the Combined Financial Statements (a)(2) Financial Statement Schedules Filed Financial Statement Schedules of the Company I - Condensed Financial Information of Registrant II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 Financial Statement Schedule of the Company's Unconsolidated Affiliates II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 46 All other schedules have been omitted because the information is not required or is not applicable, or because the information required is included in the financial statements or the notes thereto. (a)(3) Exhibits 3.1 Restated Certificate of Incorporation of LIN Broadcasting Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 3.2 Amended and Restated By Laws. 10.1* Amended and Restated 1969 Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference to Appendix A to the Company's Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 2, 1994) 10.2(a)* Profit Sharing Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 1989 (the "Profit Sharing Plan") (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 10.2(b)* Amendment, adopted November 22, 1994, to the Profit Sharing Plan 10.3* Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(d) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1989) 10.4 Partnership Agreement, dated as of March 18, 1983, among LIN Cellular Communications Corporation, Metromedia, Inc., and Cellular Systems, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 10.5 Partnership Agreement, dated as of June 22, 1983, between Los Angeles Cellular Corporation and LIN Cellular Communications Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 10.6 Stock Agreement, dated June 5, 1982, by and among Radio Broadcasting Company, LIN Broadcasting Corporation, LIN Cellular Communications Corporation, Metromedia, Inc., and AWACS, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 47 10.7 Amended and Restated Partnership Agreement, dated as of November 9, 1984, among LIN Cellular Communications Corporation, D/FW Signal, Inc., MCI Cellular Telephone Company, Cellular Mobile Systems, Inc., and Mid-America Cellular Systems, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 10.8 Amended and Restated Partnership Agreement, dated as of December 12, 1984, among Metro Mobile CTS, Cellular Systems, Inc., and Houston Mobile Cellular Communications Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 10.9 Partnership Agreement, dated as of December 12, 1984, among American Mobile Communications of Houston and the Gulf, Houston Cellular Corporation, LIN Cellular Communications Corporation, MCI Cellular Telephone Company, Charisma Communications Corp. of the Southwest, and Cellular Mobile Systems of Texas, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 10.10 Partnership Agreement, dated as of September 1991, by and between Galveston Mobile Corporation and LIN Cellular Communications Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.17 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 10.11 Agreement, dated December 11, 1989, between the Company, MMM Holdings, Inc. and McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (c)(6) to Amendment No. 24 to Schedule 14D-1 and Amendment No. 30 to Schedule 13D relating to the Offer filed by MMM Holdings, Inc. and McCaw with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 1989) 10.12(a) Private Market Value Guarantee, dated December 11, 1989, between the Company and McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. (the "Private Market Value Guarantee") (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (c)(7) to Amendment No. 24 to Schedule 14D-1 and Amendment No. 30 to Schedule 13D relating to the Offer filed by MMM Holdings, Inc. and McCaw with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 1989) 10.12(b) First Amendment, dated June 7, 1994, to the Private Market Value Guarantee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company's Report on Form 8-K dated May 25, 1994) 48 10.13 Exercise, dated October 27, 1989, of the Company's Rights of First Refusal to Acquire the Interests of Metromedia Company in Metro One Cellular Telephone Company, and Agreement of Purchase and Sale, dated October 3, 1989, by and between McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. and Metromedia Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(u) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1989) 10.14(a) Credit Agreement, dated as of August 1, 1990, among LIN Cellular Network, Inc., Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York and the Lenders Named therein (the "1990 Credit Agreement") (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1990) 10.14(b) Amendment No. 1, dated as of June 15, 1993, to the 1990 Credit Agreement 10.14(c) Amendment No. 2, dated as of May 31, 1994, to the 1990 Credit Agreement 10.15 Stock Acquisition Agreement, dated as of May 7, 1990, between LCH Cellular, Inc. and Metromedia Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (b)(i) to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1990) 10.16 Restated Certificate of Incorporation of LCH Communications, Inc. (formerly LCH Cellular, Inc.) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (b)(ii) to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1990) 10.17 Stockholders Agreement, dated as of August 10, 1990, among Metromedia Company, LCH Holdings, Inc. and LCH Communications, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit (b)(iii) to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1990) 10.18(a)* Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "ESPP") (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 dated March 13, 1991 (Registration No. 33-39282)) 10.18(b)* Amendment, adopted November 2, 1994, to the ESPP 10.19* Employment Agreement, dated as of October 17, 1990 of Gary Chapman (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.28 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1991) 49 10.20* Employment Agreement, dated as of April 16, 1991, of Donald Guthrie (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.30 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1991) 10.21(a)* LIN Broadcasting Corporation Retirement Plan (the "Retirement Plan"), as amended and restated as of January 1, 1989 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.31 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1991). 10.21(b)* Amendment to the Retirement Plan dated January 1, 1993 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.32 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1992) 10.21(c)* Amendment, adopted November 22, 1994, to the Retirement Plan 10.22(a)* LIN Broadcasting Corporation Supplemental Benefit Retirement Plan dated January 1, 1990 (the "Supplemental Plan") (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.33 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1992) 10.22(b)* Amendment, adopted November 22, 1994, to the Supplemental Plan 10.23* LIN Employee Plans, established in connection with the McCaw-AT&T Merger Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.34 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1993) 10.24* LIN Broadcasting Deferred Compensation Plan, dated December 15, 1993 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.35 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1993) 10.25 Distribution Agreement, dated as of December 28, 1994, between the Company and LIN Television Corporation ("LIN TV") (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.4 to the Report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994 filed by LIN Television Corporation) 10.26 Tax Allocation Agreement, dated as of December 28, 1994, between the Company and LIN TV (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994 filed by LIN Television Corporation) 10.27 Management Services Agreement, dated as of December 28, 1994, between the Company and LIN TV (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994 filed by LIN Television Corporation) 50 10.28 Employee Benefits Allocation Agreement, dated as of December 28, 1994, between the Company and LIN TV (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.3 to the Report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994 filed by LIN Television Corporation) 10.29 Consulting Agreement, dated as of December 28, 1994, between LIN TV, LCH Communications, Inc. and LIN Michigan Broadcasting Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.4 to the Report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994 filed by LIN Television Corporation) 10.30 Right of First Refusal Agreement, dated as of December 28, 1994, between the Company and LIN TV (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.5 to the Report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994 filed by LIN Television Corporation) 10.31(a) Asset Purchase Agreement, dated June 7, 1994 among the Company, LIN TV, Cook Inlet Communications Corp. and Cook Inlet Communications, Inc. (the "Asset Purchase Agreement") (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company's Report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994) 10.31(b) First Amendment, dated September 26, 1994. to the Asset Purchase Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Company's Report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994) 10.31(c) Second Amendment, dated December 6, 1994. to the Asset Purchase Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.3 to the Company's Report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994) 10.32 Credit Agreement, dated as of June 15, 1994, among LIN Cellular Network, Inc., Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc. and the Lenders named therein 11 Statement regarding computation of earnings per share 21 Subsidiaries of the Registrant 23.1 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP 23.2 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP 23.3 Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP 24 Powers of Attorney with respect to Certain Signatures 27 Financial Data Schedule * Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement. 51 (b) Reports on Form 8-K A report on Form 8-K dated December 28, 1994 relating to the completion of the spin-off of LIN Television Corporation, as well as the selection of appraisers under the Private Market Value Guarantee process by the Independent Directors of the Company and AT&T, was filed dated December 28, 1994. 52 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized. LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION By: TOM A. ALBERG ----------------------- Tom A. Alberg President, Chief Operating Officer March 31, 1995 Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this Report has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. Signature Title Date ---------- ----------------- ----------- Chairman of the Board Lewis M. Chakrin* and Director March 31, 1995 -------------------- Lewis M. Chakrin Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Steven W. Hooper* Officer) March 31, 1995 -------------------- Steven W. Hooper President, Chief Operating Officer Tom A. Alberg and Director March 31, 1995 -------------------- Tom A. Alberg Senior Vice President-Finance (Principal Financial and Donald Guthrie Accounting Officer) March 31, 1995 -------------------- Donald Guthrie Dennis J. Carey* Director March 31, 1995 -------------------- Dennis J. Carey 53 Signature Title Date ---------- ----------------- ----------- Harold S. Eastman* Director March 31, 1995 -------------------- Harold S. Eastman W. Preston Granbery* Director March 31, 1995 -------------------- W. Preston Granbery William G. Herbster* Director March 31, 1995 -------------------- William G. Herbster Rolla P. Huff* Director March 31, 1995 -------------------- Rolla P. Huff Wilma H. Jordan* Director March 31, 1995 -------------------- Wilma H. Jordan Richard W. Kislik* Director March 31, 1995 -------------------- Richard W. Kislik Vice Chairman of the Board and Director -------------------- Wayne M. Perry Director -------------------- Florence L. Walsh *By: TOM A. ALBERG ------------------------- Attorney-in-fact INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Page Report of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors . . . . . . . . .F-1 Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 1994 and 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F-2 Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F-4 Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F-6 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F-7 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . F-12 Report of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors . . . . . . . . F-32 Independent Auditors' Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-33 Report of Independent Public Accountants. . . . . . . . . . . . . F-34 Combined Financial Statements of the Company's Unconsolidated Affiliates Combined Balance Sheets at December 31, 1994 and 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-35 Combined Statements of Income for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-37 Combined Statements of Ventures' Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-38 Combined Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 . . . . . . . F-39 Notes to Combined Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . F-42 Financial Statement Schedules of the Company I - Condensed Financial Information of Registrant. . . . . . . . F-48 II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-53 Financial Statement Schedule of the Company's Unconsolidated Affiliates II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts and Reserves for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-54 F-1 REPORT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS Board of Directors and Stockholders of LIN Broadcasting Corporation We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of LIN Broadcasting Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 31, 1994 and 1993, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1994. Our audits also included the financial statement schedules listed in the Index at Item 14(a). These financial statements and schedules are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and schedules based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform our audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of LIN Broadcasting Corporation and subsidiaries at December 31, 1994 and 1993, and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1994, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedules, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein. ERNST & YOUNG LLP Seattle, Washington January 20, 1995 F-2 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS DECEMBER 31, 1994 AND 1993 (Dollars in thousands) ASSETS 1994 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current Assets: Cash and cash equivalents $47,467 $86,366 Marketable securities -- 16,465 Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts (1994-$17,395; 1993-$18,138) 136,279 156,784 Inventory 16,848 5,640 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 9,907 16,320 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total current assets 210,501 281,575 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Property and equipment, at cost, less accumulated depreciation 450,698 405,762 Other noncurrent assets 47,150 61,807 Investments in and advances to unconsolidated affiliates 274,830 264,172 Cellular FCC licenses, less accumulated amortization (1994-$194,997; 1993-$148,672) 1,727,546 1,627,371 Other intangible assets, less accumulated amortization (1994-$141,195; 1993-$145,853) 213,148 268,836 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Assets $2,923,873 $2,909,523 ============================================================================ LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current Liabilities: Current portion of long-term debt $151,875 $146,891 Accrued income taxes 34,875 34,241 Accounts payable 67,880 37,975 Unearned revenues 13,165 25,880 Accrued interest payable 5,399 2,685 Payable to McCaw and AT&T 21,069 16,064 Other accruals 88,186 87,108 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total current liabilities 382,449 350,844 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (continued) F-3 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (Continued) DECEMBER 31, 1994 AND 1993 (Dollars in thousands) LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (Continued) 1994 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Long-term debt 1,443,125 1,551,447 Deferred income taxes 735,313 735,049 Other noncurrent liabilities 6,741 13,091 Minority interests in equity of consolidated subsidiaries 58,507 56,209 Redeemable preferred stock of a subsidiary -- 1,305,248 Stockholders' Equity (Deficit): Common stock, $.01 par value, 150,000,000 shares authorized, 55,329,000 shares issued 553 553 Paid-in capital 1,055,169 224,689 Deficit (586,055) (1,150,205) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 469,667 (924,963) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Less common stock in treasury, at cost (1994-3,678,000 shares; 1993-3,826,000 shares) 171,929 177,402 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total stockholders' equity (deficit) 297,738 (1,102,365) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity $2,923,873 $2,909,523 =========================================================================== See accompanying notes. F-4 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Net Revenues $876,469 $688,557 $572,521 Operating Costs and Expenses: Direct operating 138,579 123,081 110,966 Selling, general and administrative 378,797 261,549 205,365 Corporate expenses 11,831 8,340 7,571 Depreciation 58,066 45,940 39,676 Amortization of intangible assets 83,086 79,190 78,928 Loss on disposal of cellular equipment -- 42,152 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 670,359 560,252 442,506 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Operating Income 206,110 128,305 130,015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Income (Expenses): Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates 115,010 103,125 96,977 Investment income and other 5,717 7,015 9,295 Litigation settlement -- -- 7,032 Interest expense (111,638) (95,407) (125,218) Gain on redemption of preferred stock 468,689 -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 477,778 14,733 (11,914) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Income Before Income Tax Expense and Minority Interests 683,888 143,038 118,101 Income Tax Expense 59,289 65,569 33,897 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Income Before Minority Interests 624,599 77,469 84,204 (continued) F-5 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Continued) (Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts) 1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minority Interests: In net income of consolidated subsidiaries 26,874 3,896 18,856 Provision for preferred stock dividends of a subsidiary 33,575 134,300 134,300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Net Income (Loss) $564,150 $(60,727) $(68,952) ================================================================================================= Net Income (Loss) Per Share $10.84 $(1.18) $(1.34) ================================================================================================= See accompanying notes. F-6 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) Total Common Paid-in Treasury Stockholders' Stock Capital Deficit Stock Deficit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance, December 31, 1991 $553 $221,766 $(1,020,526) $(180,366) $(978,573) Net loss -- -- (68,952) -- (68,952) 17,911 shares purchased for treasury -- -- -- (1,429) (1,429) 39,192 shares issued from treasury for employee stock purchase plan, stock option exercises and tax benefits -- 315 -- 1,903 2,218 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance, December 31, 1992 553 222,081 (1,089,478) (179,892) (1,046,736) Net loss -- -- (60,727) -- (60,727) 19,218 shares purchased for treasury -- -- -- (1,798) (1,798) 97,040 shares issued from treasury for employee stock purchase plan, stock option exercises and tax benefits -- 2,608 -- 4,288 6,896 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance, December 31, 1993 553 224,689 (1,150,205) (177,402) (1,102,365) Net income -- -- 564,150 -- 564,150 9,275 shares purchased for treasury -- -- -- (1,094) (1,094) 155,702 shares issued from treasury for employee stock purchase plan, stock option exercises and tax benefits -- 5,404 -- 6,567 11,971 Redemption of preferred stock of a subsidiary -- 783,823 -- -- 783,823 Spin-off of LIN Television Corporation -- 41,253 -- -- 41,253 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance, December 31, 1994 $553 $1,055,169 $(586,055) $(171,929) $297,738 =============================================================================================================================== See accompanying notes. F-7 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OPERATING ACTIVITIES: Net income (loss) $564,150 $(60,727) $(68,952) Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation and amortization 141,152 125,130 118,604 Amortization of cost associated with long-term debt 9,866 9,793 10,477 Gain on redemption of preferred stock (468,689) -- -- Provision for loss on cellular equipment -- 42,152 -- Litigation settlement -- -- (5,900) Minority interests in net income of consolidated subsidiaries 26,874 3,896 18,856 Provision for preferred stock dividends 33,575 134,300 134,300 Provision for losses on accounts receivable 18,200 14,359 14,930 Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates (115,010) (103,125) (96,977) (continued) F-8 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OPERATING ACTIVITIES (continued): Changes in operating assets and liabilities: Increase in accounts receivable (49,129) (48,394) (34,554) Increase in inventories and other current assets (17,529) (3,626) (2,580) Cash received from equity investees 54,986 67,447 70,927 Increase (decrease) in accounts payable 41,265 (1,194) 4,396 Increase (decrease) in accrued income taxes 18,242 (8,587) 8,359 Increase (decrease) in other current liabilities (861) 25,235 (6,742) Increase (decrease) in deferred income taxes (25,437) 26,647 (6,563) Decrease in minority interests (11,158) (1,568) (9,268) Tax benefits from stock option exercises 4,119 1,428 282 Other (7,865) (2,184) (6,017) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total adjustments (347,399) 281,709 212,530 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net cash provided by operating activities 216,751 220,982 143,578 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Continued) F-9 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Continued) FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVESTING ACTIVITIES: Proceeds from sales of marketable securities 16,368 46,677 34,780 Purchases of marketable securities -- (43,705) (22,260) Proceeds from sale of property and equipment 8,016 -- -- Capital expenditures (164,330) (150,475) (71,505) Cellular and television acquisitions (174,993) (36,879) -- Investments in and advances to unconsolidated affiliates, net (3,494) 15,854 (26,709) Cash divested in LIN Television spin-off (9,113) -- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net cash used for investing activities $(327,546) $(168,528) $(85,694) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Continued) F-10 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Continued) FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINANCING ACTIVITIES: Proceeds from long-term bank loans $350,000 $-- $-- Repayment of long-term bank loans (265,480) (71,344) (31,818) Increase in deferred commitment/ financing fees (5,467) -- -- Redemption of preferred stock (13,167) -- -- Proceeds from common stock issued for stock purchase plan and stock options 7,104 4,145 1,641 Purchase of common stock for treasury (1,094) (1,798) (1,429) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net cash provided (used) for financing activities 71,896 (68,997) (31,606) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents (38,899) (16,543) 26,278 Cash and Cash Equivalents at Beginning of Year 86,366 102,909 76,631 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of Year $47,467 $86,366 $102,909 ================================================================================================= (Continued) F-11 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Continued) FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION Cash paid for: Interest $99,023 $88,373 $119,823 Income taxes $81,997 $47,612 $34,384 Significant non-cash investing and financing activities: On June 24, 1994, LCH Communications, Inc. ("LCH"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, redeemed all of its outstanding Redeemable Preferred Stock held by Comcast Cellular Communications Inc., in exchange for all of the capital stock of a subsidiary of LCH, whose assets consisted primarily of a 49.99% interest in the Philadelphia cellular system and the GuestInformant specialty publishing business, plus $12.3 million cash (which represented 15% of the fair market value of the WOOD-TV business). The additional $0.9 million cash reflected in the cash flow statement above represented cash held by GuestInformant. On December 28, 1994, the Company distributed all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of its previously wholly-owned subsidiary LIN Television Corporation ("LIN TV"). The Company's stockholders of record on December 9, 1994 received one share of LIN TV common stock for each two shares of the Company's common stock owned. The $9.1 million cash reflected in the cash flow statement represented cash held by LIN TV. See accompanying notes.
F-12 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 1 - Organization and Operations The Company is engaged in the ownership and operation of cellular telephone systems and one television station. On December 28, 1994, the Company spun-off its LIN Television Corporation subsidiary which owned six television stations (see Note 3). McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. ("McCaw"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T Corp. ("AT&T"), currently owns approximately 52% of the outstanding shares of the Company. NOTE 2 - Significant Accounting Policies PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION: The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, its majority-owned subsidiaries and cellular ventures in which the Company has voting control. The Company's investments in cellular ventures in which it has voting interests of at least 20% but not more than 50% (Los Angeles, Houston and Galveston) are accounted for on the equity method. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. CELLULAR FCC LICENSES AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS: Cellular FCC licenses represent costs to acquire cellular licenses authorized by the Federal Communications Commission. Other intangible assets primarily represent costs allocated in acquisitions to customer lists, goodwill and other intangibles. Intangible assets acquired subsequent to October 31, 1970 are being amortized over the lesser of their useful lives or forty years, in accordance with Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 17. The carrying value of intangible assets will be reviewed if the facts and circumstances suggest that they may be impaired. If this review indicates that intangible assets will not be recoverable, the Company's carrying value of the intangible assets will be reduced by the estimated shortfall of cash flows. CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND MARKETABLE SECURITIES: Certain highly liquid, short-term investments which have a maturity of three months or less when purchased are considered cash equivalents. The Company's excess cash is invested in US Government obligations and money market instruments. Investments which do not meet the definition of a cash equivalent are classified as marketable securities. Marketable securities are carried at aggregate cost which approximates market value. Net realized gains and losses on security transactions are determined on a specific cost basis. INVENTORY: Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out) or market. F-13 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 2 - Significant Accounting Policies (continued) PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT: Property and equipment, including renewals and betterments to existing facilities, are recorded at cost. Depreciation is computed on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets. INCOME TAXES: Accelerated depreciation methods are used for tax purposes. The Company provides deferred taxes relating to these and other timing differences. REVENUE RECOGNITION: Cellular airtime is recorded as revenue when earned. Access fees that are billed in advance to cellular customers are recognized as revenue in the period when the cellular services are provided. Broadcast revenue is billed when contracted and recognized during the period the advertising is aired. NET INCOME (LOSS) PER SHARE: Net income (loss) per share is based upon the weighted average common and equivalent shares outstanding during the year. Common stock equivalents are excluded from the calculation when their effect is antidilutive. Average common and equivalent shares outstanding for the years ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 totaled 52,040,000, 51,445,000 and 51,417,000, respectively. For 1994, a separate earnings per share calculation for the excess of carrying amount of preferred stock over the fair value of consideration transferred to the holder of the preferred stock added to primary net income is shown below: Amount Per Share ------- --------- Net income $564,150 $10.84 Excess carrying value of preferred stock over fair value of consideration transferred 783,823 15.06 -------- -------- Total $1,347,973 $25.90 ========== ======== RECLASSIFICATIONS: Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior years' financial statements in order to conform to the 1994 presentation. F-14 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 3 - Business Divestiture and Acquisitions Distribution of LIN Television Corporation: On December 28, 1994, the Company distributed all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of its previously wholly-owned subsidiary LIN Television Corporation ("LIN TV"). LIN TV operations comprised substantially all of the Company's former broadcast media operations. The distribution was made in the form of a dividend payable to holders of record of the LIN Broadcasting common stock at the close of business on December 9, 1994. The Company's stockholders of record on that date received one share of LIN TV common stock for each two shares of the Company's common stock owned. The consolidated financial statements reflect an increase in the Company's additional paid-in capital of $41.25 million, representing the negative net book value of the assets and liabilities distributed. The results of operations of LIN TV have been included in the Company's consolidated financial statements through December 28, 1994. The table below summarizes the assets and liabilities distributed: (in thousands) Amount ------------------------------------------------------ Current assets $56,085 Noncurrent assets 154,296 Current liabilities 66,062 Noncurrent liabilities 185,572 Deficit 41,253 The Company entered into a tax allocation agreement with LIN TV that provides for the allocation between the Company and LIN TV of responsibilities, liabilities and benefits relating to or affecting taxes paid or payable by either of them or their respective subsidiaries for all taxable periods before and after the distribution. Generally, the tax allocation agreement provides that the Company will prepare, file and pay taxes associated with all tax returns for periods beginning before the distribution date that are required to be filed on a consolidated, combined or similar group basis unless none of the Company or its subsidiaries (other than LIN TV and its subsidiaries) is included in such return. Other tax returns will be filed by LIN TV if they relate to television businesses (as defined) or by the Company if they relate to LIN businesses. The agreement also provides that each of the Company and LIN TV will pay all taxes that are payable as a result of the distribution and the failure after the distribution of such party to act in conformity with statements (insofar as such statements are applicable to such party) set forth in the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") letter ruling regarding the distribution and in filings with the IRS made in connection with the IRS letter ruling. F-15 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 3 - Business Divestitures and Acquisitions (continued) Certain subsidiaries of the Company also entered into a consulting agreement with LIN TV, pursuant to which LIN TV will provide management and operational consulting for WOOD-TV and WOTV-TV, and a right of first refusal agreement, pursuant to which, in the event the Company receives and wishes to accept an offer to purchase assets associated with WOOD-TV or WOTV-TV, LIN TV has the right to purchase such assets at the offered price. During 1994, the Company divested its interests in the Philadelphia cellular operation and the GuestInformant specialty publishing business. See further discussion in Note 7. Acquisitions: On May 31, 1994, the Company acquired an additional 5.2% interest in the New York City cellular licensee for approximately $145 million in cash, bringing the Company's total interest in the New York City licensee to 98.3%. The New York City acquisition was funded through proceeds from the Company's senior unsecured bank credit facility (see Note 6). On May 25, 1994, the Company acquired a 100% interest in the Litchfield County, Connecticut (Connecticut RSA-1) cellular licensee for aggregate consideration of approximately $30 million cash. On October 6, 1993, the Company acquired a 100% interest in the Newton, Texas (Texas RSA-17) cellular licensee for approximately $36 million cash. All of the above acquisitions have been accounted for using the purchase method, and the excess of the costs over fair market values of the tangible assets acquired has been assigned to Cellular FCC licenses, customer lists, goodwill and other intangible assets. F-16 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 4 - Property and Equipment The major classifications of property and equipment are as follows: December 31, (in thousands) 1994 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Land $867 $5,860 Buildings and improvements 39,524 48,307 Broadcasting and publishing equipment 11,976 70,001 Cellular equipment 416,344 412,824 Construction in progress and other 122,993 154,061 -------- -------- 591,704 691,053 Less accumulated depreciation 141,006 285,291 -------- -------- $450,698 $405,762 ======== ======== NOTE 5 - Investments in and Advances to Unconsolidated Affiliates As indicated in Note 2, the Company's investments in cellular partnerships or corporations in which it has voting interests of at least 20% but not more than 50% (Los Angeles, Houston and Galveston) are accounted for on the equity method. In June 1994, the Company disposed of its interest in the Philadelphia cellular venture in connection with the redemption of preferred stock (see Note 7). The Company controlled approximately 1.86 million shares of the common stock of American Mobile Satellite Corporation ("AMSC") as of December 31, 1994 and 1993. This investment is accounted for at cost and amounted to $27.3 million as of December 31, 1994 and 1993. As of December 31, 1994, the market value of AMSC common stock controlled by the Company was $23.7 million based on the closing price on that date. The Company also had loans and advances totaling $13.6 and $10.2 million outstanding as of December 31, 1994 and 1993, respectively, to certain of its unconsolidated affiliates. The loans carry interest at prime plus 1% and mature in 1995. F-17 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 5 - Investments in and Advances to Unconsolidated Affiliates (continued) The following is a summary of combined results of operations, assets, liabilities and equity of significant investments accounted for on the equity method:
At 100% (in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Net revenues $788,932 $704,550 $606,277 Net income $270,800 $255,685 $238,084 LIN's equity in income $115,010 $103,125 $96,977 Current assets $184,699 $183,577 $137,553 Noncurrent assets 501,928 488,052 423,676 ---------- ---------- ---------- Total assets $686,627 $671,629 $561,229 ========== ========== ========== Current liabilities $159,160 $127,976 $83,152 Noncurrent liabilities -- 100,950 130,932 ---------- ---------- ---------- Total liabilities 159,160 228,926 214,084 Equity 527,467 442,703 347,145 ---------- ---------- ---------- Total liabilities and equity $686,627 $671,629 $561,229 ========== ========== ==========
F-18 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 6 - Long-Term Debt Long-term debt consists of the following: December 31, (in thousands) 1994 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bank Credit Facilities LIN Cellular Network, Inc.: Term credit facilities $1,315,000 $1,316,250 Revolving credit facilities 280,000 160,000 ---------- ---------- 1,595,000 1,476,250 LIN Television Corporation: Term credit facility -- 159,088 Revolving credit facility -- 63,000 ---------- ---------- -- 222,088 ---------- ---------- 1,595,000 1,698,338 Less current portion of long-term debt 151,875 146,891 ---------- ---------- $1,443,125 $1,551,447 ========== ========== The Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, LIN Cellular Network, Inc. ("LCNI"), which owns all of the Company's cellular operations, has a senior secured and a senior unsecured bank credit facility (the "Bank Credit Facilities"). As of December 31, 1994, the aggregate additional borrowing capacity available to the Company under these two facilities totaled $220 million. Fees incurred in connection with the Bank Credit Facilities are classified as noncurrent assets and are being amortized over the contractual terms of the facilities. The aggregate amounts of principal maturities on the utilized portions of the Bank Credit Facilities subsequent to December 31, 1994 are as follows: (in thousands) Amount ----------------------------------------------------- 1995 $151,875 1996 208,625 1997 253,875 1998 299,125 1999 327,500 Thereafter 354,000 --------- $1,595,000 ========== F-19 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 6 - Long-Term Debt (continued) Under the Bank Credit Facilities, interest is payable, at the Company's discretion, at the prevailing prime rate, LIBOR or CD rates, plus an applicable margin. Interest is fixed for a period ranging from one month to twelve months, depending on availability of the interest basis selected, although if the Company selects a prime-based loan, the interest rate will fluctuate during the period as the prime rate fluctuates. The applicable margin for each loan will be determined each quarter based on LCNI's ratio of adjusted senior debt (as determined under the appropriate Bank Credit Facility) to cash flow, as defined. Due to the frequent repricing of the borrowings under the Bank Credit Facilities, the book values at December 31, 1994 approximate fair values. The Bank Credit Facilities contain covenants restricting certain activities by LCNI and its subsidiaries, including, without limitation, restrictions on (i) acquisitions and investments, (ii) the incurrence of debt, (iii) distributions and dividends to stockholders, (iv) mergers and sales of assets, (v) prepayments of subordinated indebtedness, (vi) the creation of liens and (vii) the issuance of preferred stock. In addition, LCNI will be required to apply cash proceeds from certain sales of assets that are not reinvested in similar assets and excess cash flow, as defined, to the prepayment of loans. The Company has not guaranteed the repayment of amounts under the Bank Credit Facilities. LCNI is required to maintain compliance with certain financial covenants set forth in the Bank Credit Facilities, including ratios of senior debt and combined debt to cash flow and cash flow to debt service or fixed charges. LCNI pledged as security the capital stock of certain of its subsidiaries, including those owning the Company's interests in the New York, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston cellular partnerships. The Company also pledged as security the capital stock of LCNI under the Bank Credit Facilities. The Bank Credit Facilities contain customary provisions concerning events of default, including (i) failure to make principal or interest payments when due, (ii) failure to comply with covenants, (iii) misrepresentations, (iv) defaults on other indebtedness, (v) material adverse change in the business, condition, operations, performance or properties of the borrower, (vi) unpaid judgments and (vii) standard ERISA and bankruptcy defaults. In addition, it shall be an event of default if AT&T or McCaw fails to have the right to cause the election of its F-20 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 6 - Long-Term Debt (continued) nominees to a majority of the directorships of the Board of Directors of the Company or of McCaw or if AT&T fails to have economic ownership of at least 51% of the combined voting power of all voting stock of McCaw. The weighted average interest rate was 7.04% for the term and revolving credit facilities at December 31, 1994. The Bank Credit Facilities provide for annual fees of .5% of the unused commitments. In order to comply with covenants under its Bank Credit Facilities and to provide protection against rising interest rates, the Company entered into interest rate cap agreements with notional amounts of $850 million, $840 million and $1.35 billion as of December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992. The rate cap agreements in effect as of December 31, 1994 have expiration dates ranging from July 1995 to September 1997. All of the interest rate caps are based on three month LIBOR and have strike rates ranging from 8% to 8.5%. During the past three years, the prevailing market rates have been below the rate caps in effect, thus the only effect on the Company's interest expense has been the amortization of the cost of the caps of $860, $1,951, and $2,669 during the years ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992, respectively. In the event that a counterparty to an interest rate cap fails to fulfill its obligation, the Company would be required to pay the interest rate on the underlying debt without the benefit of the hedge. NOTE 7 - Redeemable Preferred Stock of a Subsidiary On June 24, 1994, LCH redeemed all of its outstanding Redeemable Preferred Stock held by Comcast Cellular Communications Inc., in exchange for all of the capital stock of a subsidiary of LCH, whose assets consisted primarily of a 49.99% interest in the Philadelphia cellular system and the GuestInformant specialty publishing business, plus $12.3 million cash (which represented 15% of the fair market value of the WOOD-TV business). The Company has accounted for this transaction as a nonmonetary exchange. Accordingly, the Company recognized a gain of $468.7 million, which represented the excess of the estimated fair market values over the book values of the assets exchanged. The $783.8 million difference between the book value of the Preferred Stock and the fair values of the assets exchanged was credited to additional paid-in capital. The Company has reported the redemption to the IRS as a tax-free transaction. F-21 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 8 - Stockholders' Equity McCaw currently owns approximately 52% of the outstanding Common Stock of the Company. Pursuant to the Private Market Value Guarantee ("PMVG") between the Company and McCaw, a process began on January 1, 1995 to determine the private market price per share of the Company. The private market value is being determined by Lehman Brothers Inc. and Bear, Stearns & Co, designated jointly as the Company's independent directors' appraiser, and by Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, designated as McCaw's appraiser, and if necessary by a third party appraiser. After the price is determined, McCaw will have 45 days to decide whether to proceed with the acquisition of all the public shares of the Company at that price, subject to the approval of the Company's public shareholders, or to put the Company in its entirety up for sale under the direction of the Company's independent directors. Such a sale would also be subject to approval by the Company's public shareholders. The Company is authorized to issue 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock, without par value, none of which is outstanding. The Company's board of directors is empowered to set the dividend, redemption and liquidation rights pertaining to any series of preferred stock that may be issued from time to time, to designate whether preferred shares of any series shall be convertible and the terms of such convertibility, and to establish the voting rights and any special rights or restrictions that are to apply to preferred shares of any series. The Company has never paid or declared a cash dividend on its common stock. Its dividend policy is subject to future earnings, financial conditions and other relevant factors (including, without limitation, dividend restrictions in credit and loan agreements between the Company and banks). Pursuant to the Company's 1969 stock option plan, as amended, incentive and nonqualified options have been granted or are available for grant to officers and key employees at prices not less than the fair market value at date of grant. The exercise price of each outstanding option granted prior to December 28, 1994 to purchase Company stock was adjusted to give effect to the LIN TV spin-off by reducing the exercise price based on the relative fair market values of the corresponding common stocks after the spin-off. As a result, each exercise price was adjusted to approximately 90% of its original amount. F-22 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 8 - Stockholders' Equity (continued) Options are generally not exercisable until one year after grant, have vesting terms ranging from two to five years, and expire ten years from date of grant. Changes in incentive and nonqualified stock options granted and outstanding are as follows: Shares Prices Per Share --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Options outstanding at December 31, 1991 818,356 $6.28 - $82.70 Granted 521,350 69.57 - 70.48 Exercised (25,101) 6.28 - 45.30 Canceled or expired (51,410) 39.56 - 82.70 ---------- Options outstanding at December 31, 1992 1,263,195 7.30 - 82.70 Granted 473,300 80.48 - 100.49 Exercised (84,911) 8.47 - 70.48 Canceled or expired (52,335) 20.33 - 69.57 ---------- Options outstanding at December 31, 1993 1,599,249 7.30 - 100.49 Granted 301,550 100.26 - 133.50 Exercised (145,120) 7.30 - 101.83 Canceled or expired (71,605) 39.56 - 100.49 ---------- Options outstanding at December 31, 1994 1,684,074 $13.78 - $133.50 ========== As of December 31, 1994, there were 691,045 exercisable options to purchase shares and there were 724,895 options available for future grants. Pursuant to the Company's stock option plan, in the event of a "change in control" (as defined in the plan) of the Company, vested options at the time of the change in control may be surrendered by officers of the Company, subject to Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, in exchange for a cash payment per share by the Company equal to the difference between the exercise price for the option and the greater of the highest amount paid to any holder of common stock by the acquiror in connection with the resulting change in control or the highest selling price of the common stock during the 90-day period prior to the date of surrender of the option. F-23 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 8 - Stockholders' Equity (continued) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a change in control results in the consolidation or merger of the Company with McCaw or a successor to McCaw under the PMVG, and McCaw or any such successor is the surviving company or if McCaw becomes the beneficial owner of 80% or more of the Company's stock (other than pursuant to a private market sale, as defined in the Company's PMVG with McCaw), each outstanding option shall be converted into an option to purchase McCaw's Class A Common Stock or the common stock of any such successor (or in the event that McCaw or any such successor is not publicly traded, the ultimate parent thereof). If a change in control results from a private market sale, upon a vote by a majority of the Company's independent directors, each outstanding option will be converted into an option to purchase the common stock of the acquirer. If the independent directors do not approve the conversion, the Company may (but is not required to) cancel each such option in exchange for a payment per share in cash equal to the excess of the purchase price per share in the private market sale over the exercise price of such option. The Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan ("ESPP") allows eligible employees to purchase shares of the Company's common stock, through regular payroll deductions, at 85% of the closing market price of the stock as of the last trading day of each month. The ESPP restricts participant purchases to no more than $25,000 of stock in any calendar year. A total of 300,000 shares have been authorized under the ESPP. There are no charges or credits to income in connection with the ESPP. During 1994, common stock was purchased and distributed to employees at prices ranging from $90.31 to $122.40 per share. The Company has a Stockholder Rights Plan ("Rights Plan") designed to strengthen its bargaining position on behalf of its stockholders in the event of coercive stock accumulation programs, inadequate offers or other tactics that may be used to gain control of the Company without offering a fair and adequate price to all stockholders. Under the Rights Plan, each stockholder has one right for each share of the Company's outstanding common stock that entitles the holder to purchase one one-thousandth (1/1000th) of a share of a participating preferred stock. At the present time, the rights are attached to the common stock and are not exercisable, and they do not represent any significant value to stockholders. The rights become valuable, as a result of becoming exercisable into capital stock at a substantial discount price, if any person acquires 15% or more of the Company's outstanding common stock or upon the occurrence of certain other events, including a merger or other business combination involving the Company. The Rights Plan, as amended, F-24 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 8 - Stockholders' Equity (continued) provides that the acquisition of McCaw by AT&T and the consummation of the transactions contemplated or permitted by the PMVG will not constitute a Triggering Event or cause AT&T or McCaw or any of their affiliates to become an Acquiring Person (each as defined) under the Rights Plan. NOTE 9 - Income Taxes Deferred taxes are determined based on the estimated future tax effects of differences between the financial statement and the tax basis of assets and liabilities given the provisions of the enacted tax laws. The components of the net deferred tax liability are as follows: Deferred Income Taxes (in thousands) Assets Liabilities ------------------------------------------------------------------------ December 31, 1994 Intangible assets $-- $642,926 Property and equipment -- 90,288 Other -- 2,099 -------- -------- Total $-- $735,313 ======== ======== December 31, 1993 Intangible assets $-- $628,822 Property and equipment -- 82,813 Other 2,365 25,779 -------- -------- Total $2,365 $737,414 ======== ======== The components of income tax expense are as follows: (in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current: Federal $54,482 $33,984 $29,753 State 7,459 4,938 14,216 -------- -------- -------- 61,941 38,922 43,969 Deferred: Federal (93) 26,800 (5,828) State (2,559) (153) (4,244) -------- -------- -------- (2,652) 26,647 (10,072) -------- -------- -------- $59,289 $65,569 $33,897 ======== ======== ========= F-25 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 9 - Income Taxes (continued) The deferred tax benefit results largely from the amortization of intangible assets, offset in part by the excess of tax over financial statement depreciation. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 increased the corporate tax rate to 35% from 34% effective as of January 1, 1993. Pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes," the Company recorded an additional tax expense of $15.3 million in the third quarter of 1993, with a corresponding increase in deferred tax liability. The following table reconciles the amount which would be provided by applying the 35% federal statutory rate to income before income tax expense to the federal income taxes actually provided. (in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Expense assuming federal statutory rate $239,361 $50,064 $40,154 Nontaxable gain on redemption of preferred stock (164,041) -- -- Equity investments (4,572) (5,672) (4,169) State and local taxes, net of federal benefit 3,185 3,110 6,582 Tax expense not provided on minority partners' share of income (8,147) 1,027 (4,734) Change in statutory tax rate from 34% to 35% -- 15,335 -- Other (6,497) 1,705 (3,936) -------- -------- -------- Total income tax expense $59,289 $65,569 $33,897 ======== ======== ======== NOTE 10 - Retirement Plans On December 28, 1994, the Company transferred sponsorship of the contributory retirement plan to LIN TV in connection with the spin-off of those operations (see Note 3). LIN TV assumed all rights and responsibilities associated with the Plan. The transfer was made at book value and no significant gain or loss was recognized. Employees of the Company's consolidated cellular operations are covered by 401(k) plans that provide matching contributions from the Company. F-26 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 11 - Commitments and Contingencies The Company leases various property, equipment and cellular sites under noncancellable operating leases. Rent expense relating to such leases amounted to $19.1 million, $15.9 million and $13.2 million in 1994, 1993 and 1992, respectively. Annual commitments for rental payments, principally on real property operating leases, after December 31, 1994 are as follows: 1995-$19.0 million; 1996-$17.5 million; 1997-$16.7 million; 1998-$16.1 million; 1999-$15.4 million and thereafter-$98.0 million. The Company and its subsidiaries are from time to time defendants in and are threatened with various legal proceedings arising from their regular business activities. In particular, certain of the Company's unconsolidated cellular affiliates have been named as defendants in various legal proceedings: The Los Angeles cellular partnership and several related parties have been named as defendants in various actions brought in California state court by dealers, resellers and equipment sellers for the partnership. The lawsuits variously allege a variety of torts and statutory violations, including price-fixing regarding cellular equipment and service, below-cost sales of equipment, fraud, interference with economic relationship, unfair competition, discrimination among agents, and conspiracy. Several of these cases are scheduled for trial in 1995. The partnership intends to defend each lawsuit vigorously and believes that it has meritorious defenses to the allegations contained in the complaints. The Los Angeles cellular partnership, in some cases along with other cellular carriers, also has been named as a defendant in several class actions filed in California state court by current and former customers alleging violations of federal and state antitrust law as a result of price-fixing of cellular service. Trial dates have not been set for the pending cases. The partnership intends to defend each lawsuit vigorously and believes that is has meritorious defenses to the allegations contained in the complaints. A class action lawsuit, originally filed in August 1993, has been instituted on behalf of Texas cellular subscribers in Texas state court against the Houston cellular partnership and several related parties, including the Company. As amended, the petition alleges that the liquidated damages and automatic renewal F-27 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 11 - Commitments and Contingencies (continued) provisions in annual cellular subscriber contracts violate or are contrary to state law in several respects. Plaintiffs seek declaratory relief, damages, fees, costs and interest. Neither the class nor any of the subclasses alleged by the plaintiffs have been certified. Discovery is underway, but no trial date has been set. The partnership intends to defend the lawsuit vigorously and believes that it has meritorious defenses to the allegations contained in the petition. The Company does not expect that the ultimate results of any of the foregoing legal proceedings will have a material adverse effect on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows. NOTE 12 - Segment Data As explained in Note 3, the Company divested substantially all its media operations through the spin-off of LIN TV and the preferred stock redemption (see Note 7). Accordingly, 1994 media operating data includes LIN TV operations through December 28, 1994 and specialty publishing operations through June 24, 1994. Cellular revenues primarily represent fees charged for providing cellular telephone service to subscribers. Media revenues are principally from the sale of television time to advertisers and also include revenues from the Company's specialty publishing operation. The cellular business segment data reflects the consolidation of the Company's controlling interests (principally New York and Dallas). Cellular interests in Los Angeles, Galveston and Houston are accounted for by the equity method of accounting, and thus are not included in the cellular business segment data which follows: F-28 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 12 - Segment Data (continued)
(in thousands) Cellular Media Corporate Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1994 Net revenues $692,798 $183,671 $-- $876,469 Depreciation and amortization 130,255 10,707 190 141,152 Income (loss) from operations 148,153 69,414 (11,457) 206,110 Capital expenditures 145,678 18,652 -- 164,330 Identifiable assets 2,850,001 32,713 41,159 2,923,873 1993 Net revenues $520,131 $168,426 $-- $688,557 Depreciation and amortization 114,894 10,061 175 125,130 Income (loss) from operations 77,993 58,828 (8,516) 128,305 Capital expenditures 136,662 8,599 92 145,353 Identifiable assets 2,589,995 257,839 61,689 2,909,523 1992 Net revenues $407,721 $164,800 $-- $572,521 Depreciation and amortization 109,263 9,149 192 118,604 Income (loss) from operations 77,273 60,516 (7,774) 130,015 Capital expenditures 89,254 4,489 95 93,838 Identifiable assets 2,554,972 250,259 57,679 2,862,910
F-29 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 13 - Related Party Transactions Under an inter-company services arrangement negotiated between the Company and McCaw, McCaw provides management and other services to the Company. LIN also provided certain services to McCaw during the same time periods. The Company incurred $6.3 million, $7.3 million and $5.3 million for the net value of management and other services rendered under the inter-company services agreement during 1994, 1993 and 1992, respectively. In addition to the transactions described above, the Company or its affiliates routinely enter into transactions with AT&T, McCaw or their affiliates in the ordinary course of business. Among other things, the Company's cellular affiliates purchase long distance services and cellular telephones and accessories from AT&T for resale to cellular subscribers and pay McCaw for providing cellular service to the Company's subscribers under roaming agreements, and McCaw pays the Company for similar services provided by the Company to McCaw's subscribers. The Company's cellular operations also participate in certain programs managed by McCaw, such as national advertising campaigns, national accounts marketing, and the North American Cellular Network. Such transactions are not separately disclosed in the financial statements as they are carried out in the normal course of business. All of such agreements and arrangements between the Company and McCaw are on terms that the Company believes are as favorable to it as would have been obtained with an unrelated third party. Under the Company's PMVG with McCaw, approval of the majority of LIN's independent directors is required before the Company enters into any material transactions with McCaw or its affiliates. NOTE 14 - Loss on Disposal of Cellular Equipment In February 1994, the Company's Dallas cellular operations completed the installation of a new cellular system. As a result, the Company recorded in 1993 a non-cash pre-tax charge of $42.2 million to reflect the loss on the disposal of the previous system. The loss amounted to approximately $14.8 million, or $0.29 per share, after taxes and minority interests. F-30 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 15 - Other Income and Expenses In June 1992, the Company settled a lawsuit relating to the McCaw acquisition. Under the terms of the settlement, the Company received from the defendants a payment of $3 million and certain other considerations in July 1992 and payments of $2 million in July 1993 and June 1994. In addition, the Company will receive a final payment of $2 million from McCaw on June 30, 1995. After payment of legal fees and other related costs, this settlement resulted in a net gain to the Company of approximately $7 million. F-31 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 16 - Quarterly Results of Operations (Unaudited) The financial information presented below reflects all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods. Summarized quarterly financial data for 1994 and 1993 is as follows:
First Second Third Fourth (in thousands) Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1994 Net revenues $191,627 $219,588 $225,027 $240,227 Operating income 27,716 57,364 61,738 59,292 Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates 31,848 32,353 28,616 22,193 Net income (loss) (15,095) 506,761 37,893 34,521 Net income (loss) per share (0.29) 9.75 0.73 0.66 1993 Net revenues $151,233 $171,198 $175,145 $190,981 Operating income 32,707 553 44,593 50,452 Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates 24,729 24,580 26,906 26,910 Net loss (14,592) (16,614) (26,483) (3,038) Net loss per share (0.29) (0.32) (0.51) (0.06)
F-32 REPORT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS The Board of Directors and Stockholders of LIN Broadcasting Corporation We have audited the accompanying combined balance sheets of LIN Broadcasting Corporation's Unconsolidated Affiliates listed in Note 1 (the Ventures) as of December 31, 1994 and 1993, and the related combined statements of income, Ventures' equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1994. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 14(a). These financial statements and schedule are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and schedule based on our audits. We did not audit the 1993 and 1992 consolidated financial statements of AWACS, Inc. and subsidiaries, which statements reflect total assets constituting 24% as of December 31, 1993 and net revenues constituting 19% and 17% for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 1993 of the related combined totals. Those 1993 and 1992 statements were audited by other auditors whose report, which also places reliance on other auditors, has been furnished to us, and our opinion, insofar as it relates to data included for AWACS, Inc. and subsidiaries, is based solely on the reports of the other auditors. We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform our audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits and the reports of other auditors provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, based on our audits and the reports of other auditors, the combined financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the combined financial position of the Ventures at December 31, 1994 and 1993, and the combined results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1994, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, based on our audits and the reports of other auditors, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein. ERNST & YOUNG LLP Seattle, Washington January 20, 1995 F-33 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT Board of Directors and Stockholders AWACS, Inc. Wayne, Pennsylvania We have audited the consolidated balance sheet of AWACS, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 1993, and the related consolidated statements of operations and retained earnings and of cash flows for the years ended December 31, 1993 and 1992 (not presented separately herein). These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We did not audit the financial statements of Garden State Cablevision L.P. ("Garden State"), the Company's investment in which is accounted for by use of the equity method. The Company's equity of $32,302,000 and $22,369,000 in that entity's net losses for the years then ended are included in the accompanying consolidated financial statements. The financial statements of Garden State were audited by other auditors whose report has been furnished to us, and our opinion, insofar as it relates to the amounts included for Garden State, is based solely on the report of such other auditors. We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, based on our audits and the reports of other auditors, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of AWACS, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 1993 and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the years ended December 31, 1993 and 1992, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. As discussed in the notes to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its method of accounting for income taxes effective January 1, 1993 to conform with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109 "Accounting for Income Taxes". DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP Philadelphia, Pennsylvania February 18, 1994 F-34 REPORT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS To Garden State Cablevision L.P.: We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Garden State Cablevision L.P. (a Delaware Limited Partnership) as of December 31, 1993 and 1992, and the related statements of operations, partners' (deficit) capital and cash flows for the years then ended (not presented herein). These financial statements are the responsibility of the Partnership's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Garden State Cablevision L.P. as of December 31, 1993 and 1992, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP Philadelphia, Pa., February 23, 1994 F-35 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES COMBINED BALANCE SHEETS DECEMBER 31, 1994 AND 1993 (Dollars in thousands) ASSETS 1994 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current Assets: Cash and cash equivalents $12,905 $28,675 Short-term investments -- 25,682 Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts (1994-$27,262, 1993-$9,829) 123,926 111,723 Inventories 36,183 6,079 Prepaid expenses and other 11,685 11,418 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total current assets 184,699 183,577 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Property and equipment, at cost, less accumulated depreciation 483,269 452,447 Other assets 3,185 2,108 Cellular FCC licenses, less accumulated amortization (1994-$856; 1993-$506) 13,214 13,564 Organization costs, less accumulated amortization (1994-$7,790; 1993-$6,785) 2,260 3,265 Due from affiliate -- 16,387 Notes receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts of $150 -- 281 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Assets $686,627 $671,629 =========================================================================== LIABILITIES AND EQUITY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current Liabilities: Accounts payable $62,245 $37,801 Accrued expenses 30,075 39,180 Unearned revenues 32,848 27,610 Commissions payable 11,973 14,439 Notes payable to affiliates 14,917 2,946 Other current liabilities 7,102 6,000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total current liabilities 159,160 127,976 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes payable to affiliates -- 63,126 Investment in affiliate -- 32,302 Deferred income taxes -- 4,236 Other long-term liabilities -- 1,286 (continued) F-36 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES COMBINED BALANCE SHEETS DECEMBER 31, 1994 AND 1993 (Dollars in thousands) LIABILITIES AND EQUITY (continued) 1994 1993 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equity: Contributed capital 47,184 78,690 Excess cost of limited partnership interest -- (70,384) Retained earnings 480,283 434,397 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total equity 527,467 442,703 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Liabilities and Equity $686,627 $671,629 =========================================================================== See accompanying notes. F-37 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES COMBINED STATEMENTS OF INCOME FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands)
1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Revenues $788,932 $704,550 $606,277 Operating Costs and Expenses: Direct operating 96,272 75,140 60,732 Selling, general and administrative 326,824 277,040 236,597 Depreciation and amortization 70,440 69,833 52,595 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 493,536 422,013 349,924 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Operating Income 295,396 282,537 256,353 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Income (Expense): Interest expense - affiliates (3,213) (7,515) (3,882) Interest expense (315) (623) (19) Equity in loss of affiliate (5,000) (9,933) (2,985) Litigation settlements -- (12,254) -- Provision for loss on cellular equipment -- -- (4,604) Other (3,302) 2,578 1,685 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (11,830) (27,747) (9,805) Income Before Provision for Income Taxes and Cumulative Effect of Accounting Changes 283,566 254,790 246,548 Provision for Income Taxes 12,766 11,247 8,464 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Income Before Cumulative Effect of Accounting Changes 270,800 243,543 238,084 Cumulative Effect of Accounting Changes -- 12,142 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Income $270,800 $255,685 $238,084 ================================================================================================== See accompanying notes. F-38 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES COMBINED STATEMENTS OF VENTURES' EQUITY FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) Excess Cost of Limited Contributed Partnership Retained Total Capital Interest Earnings Equity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance at December 31, 1991 $61,137 $-- $306,503 $367,640 Net income -- -- 238,084 238,084 Distributions to partners -- -- (185,945) (185,945) Acquisition of interest in Garden State Cablevision L.P. -- (70,384) -- (70,384) Acquisition of interest in Galveston Cellular Telephone Company 2,680 -- (4,930) (2,250) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance at December 31, 1992 63,817 (70,384) 353,712 347,145 Net income -- -- 255,685 255,685 Distributions to partners -- -- (175,000) (175,000) Contributions 809 -- -- 809 In-kind contribution of cellular FCC license 14,064 -- -- 14,064 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance at December 31, 1993 78,690 (70,384) 434,397 442,703 Net income -- -- 270,800 270,800 Distributions to partners -- -- (142,000) (142,000) Divestiture of AWACS, Inc. (31,506) 70,384 (82,914) (44,036) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance at December 31, 1994 $47,184 $-- $480,283 $527,467 ==================================================================================================== See accompanying notes. F-39 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES COMBINED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPERATING ACTIVITIES: Net income $270,800 $255,685 $238,084 Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation and amortization 70,440 69,833 52,595 Equity in loss of affiliate 5,000 9,933 2,985 Non-cash interest expense 2,237 6,006 1,403 Provision for losses on accounts receivable 24,110 20,945 21,127 Loss on disposal of cellular equipment 130 -- 4,604 Cumulative effect of accounting changes -- (12,142) -- Changes in operating assets and liabilities Increase in accounts receivable (65,555) (47,742) (29,300) Increase in inventory (30,151) (1,051) (3,563) Increase (decrease) in accounts payable 23,573 15,423 (6,129) Increase in accrued expenses 15,671 11,295 5,467 Increase in unearned revenues 9,388 10,792 3,445 Increase in commissions payable 2,709 3,571 2,553 Increase in deferred income taxes 629 3,319 3,244 Other, net 2,317 (4,042) 2,494 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total adjustments 60,498 86,140 60,925 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net cash provided by operating activities 331,298 341,825 299,099 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (continued) F-40 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES COMBINED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Continued) FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVESTING ACTIVITIES: Advances (to) from majority stockholder of AWACS (12,236) (16,387) 9,259 Capital expenditures (196,133) (103,944) (112,573) Purchase of short-term investments, net (3,953) (13,065) (12,617) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net cash used for investing activities (212,322) (120,331) (103,314) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINANCING ACTIVITIES: Repayment of revolving credit notes -- -- (3,800) Proceeds from (repayment of) notes payable to partners 7,254 (33,761) 10,478 Contributions from partners, net -- 809 -- Distributions paid to partners (142,000) (175,000) (185,945) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net cash used for financing activities (134,746) (207,952) (179,267) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents (15,770) 477 3,811 Cash and Cash Equivalents at Beginning of Year 28,675 28,198 24,387 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of Year $12,905 $28,675 $28,198 ======================================================================================== (continued) F-41 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES COMBINED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Continued) FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION 1994 1993 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cash paid for: Income taxes $8,195 $4,900 $6,600 Interest Partners 17 1,478 3,422 Others 181 242 540 Noncash investing and financing activities: On September 30, 1992, an indirect subsidiary of AWACS, Inc. issued a note for $51 million to purchase from the majority stockholder of AWACS, Inc. a 40% limited partnership interest in Garden State Cablevision L.P. (see Note 5 to the combined financial statements). In October 1992, a subsidiary of the Company, together with a third party, acquired an approximate 56% interest in the parent company of Galveston Cellular Telephone Company. In 1993, the cost basis of this acquisition was pushed-down to the books of Galveston Cellular Telephone Company. See accompanying notes.
F-42 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES NOTES TO COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 1 - Basis of Presentation These combined financial statements have been prepared to comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation S-X requirement, in connection with LIN Broadcasting Corporation's ("LIN") consolidated financial statements, which requires separate or combined financial statements of significant subsidiaries in which LIN has a 50% or less controlling interest. These combined financial statements include 100% of the accounts of the operating ventures listed in the table below in which LIN has voting interests of 50% or less (the "Ventures"). These Ventures are included in LIN's consolidated financial statements on the equity accounting method. On June 24, 1994, LCH Communications, Inc. ("LCH"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of LIN, redeemed all of its outstanding Redeemable Preferred Stock held by Comcast Cellular Communications Inc., in exchange for all of the capital stock of a subsidiary of LCH, whose assets consisted of a 49.99% interest in the Philadelphia cellular system. Voting/ Name and Location Equity Management ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AWACS, Inc., d/b/a Comcast Metrophone Corporation 49.99% 49.99% Philadelphia Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co., Partnership 39.97% 50.00% Los Angeles Houston Cellular Telephone Co., Partnership 56.25% 50.00% Houston Galveston Cellular Telephone Co., Corporation 34.60% 50.00% Galveston NOTE 2 - Significant Accounting Policies The following are the Ventures' significant accounting policies: CASH EQUIVALENTS AND SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS: Certain highly liquid, short-term investments which have a maturity of three months or less when purchased are considered cash equivalents. Excess cash is primarily invested in US Government obligations. Short-term investments consist principally of U.S. Government obligations with a maturity of greater than three months when purchased. F-43 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES NOTES TO COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 2 - Significant Accounting Policies (continued) INVENTORIES: Inventories consist primarily of cellular phones, related parts and accessories and are stated at the lower of cost (FIFO) or fair market value. PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT: Cellular system equipment is recorded at cost and is depreciated on a straight-line basis over an 8 or 10 year period. All other property and equipment, including betterments to existing facilities, are recorded at cost and depreciated on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives of three to twenty years. CELLULAR FCC LICENSES AND ORGANIZATION COSTS: Cellular FCC Licenses represent costs to acquire cellular licenses authorized by the Federal Communications Commission and are amortized using the straight line method over 40 years. Organization costs, consisting principally of legal fees, feasibility studies and other costs related to obtaining required licenses and regulatory approvals, are amortized using the straight-line method over a 10 year period. INCOME TAXES: Accelerated depreciation methods are used for tax purposes. AWACS, Inc., which is a corporation, provides deferred taxes related to this and other timing differences. Effective January 1, 1993, AWACS, Inc. adopted the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes" (see Note 7). No provision is made for income taxes for either the Los Angeles, Houston or Galveston ventures as the income or loss is included in the tax returns of the respective partners of these partnerships. REVENUE RECOGNITION: Cellular airtime is recorded as revenue when earned. Unearned revenues consist principally of amounts billed to customers for access fees which are payable one month in advance. RECLASSIFICATIONS: Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior years' combined financial statements in order to conform to the 1994 presentation. F-44 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES NOTES TO COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 3 - Property and Equipment The major classifications of property and equipment were as follows: December 31, (in thousands) 1994 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Land $1,549 $1,379 Buildings and improvements 8,207 6,583 Cellular equipment 658,559 576,655 Other 42,597 70,997 --------- --------- 710,912 655,614 Less accumulated depreciation (227,643) (203,167) --------- --------- $483,269 $452,447 ========= ========= NOTE 4 - Notes Payable to Affiliates The Houston venture has entered into agreements with the partners under which it has borrowed $11,000 as of December 31, 1994. The note matures in December 1995 and bears interest at the prime rate plus 1%. The Galveston venture also entered into an agreement with an affiliate under which it has borrowed $3,917 as of December 31, 1994. This note matures beginning in 1995 and bears interest at prime plus 2%. NOTE 5 - Equity In accordance with the various partnership agreements, income of the partnerships is allocated to each owner's respective capital account in accordance with its respective equity interest. Additional capital contributions may be called based on annual construction and operating budgets submitted by the partnerships and agreed upon by the operating committees of each partnership. NOTE 6 - Income Taxes Effective January 1, 1993, AWACS, Inc. adopted SFAS No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes." As a result, AWACS, Inc. recorded a cumulative effect of accounting change of $12,517. The adoption of SFAS No. 109 did not have a significant impact on the amount of income tax expense recorded by AWACS, Inc. during 1993. F-45 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES NOTES TO COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 6 - Income Taxes (continued) The income tax expense relates to the income of AWACS, Inc. and consists of the following: Year Ended December 31, (in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Current: Federal $8,375 $3,543 $3,179 State 3,762 4,653 2,041 ------ ------ ------ 12,137 8,196 5,220 Deferred: Federal 476 4,381 2,509 State 153 (1,330) 735 ------ ------ ------ 629 3,051 3,244 ------ ------ ------ $12,766 $11,247 $8,464 ======= ======= ====== No provision is made for income taxes for either the Los Angeles, Houston or Galveston ventures as the income or loss is included in the tax returns of the respective partners of these partnerships. Deferred taxes are attributable primarily to excess tax over book depreciation and certain expenses not deductible for tax purposes until paid. NOTE 7 - POSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS OTHER THAN PENSIONS Effective January 1, 1993, AWACS, Inc. adopted SFAS No. 106. This statement requires AWACS, Inc. to accrue the estimated cost of retiree benefits earned during the years the employee provides services. The cumulative effect as of January 1, 1993 of the adoption of SFAS No. 106 was to reduce the AWACS, Inc. net income by approximately $375 (net of tax). NOTE 8 - Related-Party Transactions For each of the years ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992, two partnerships recorded management fees payable to affiliates of their partners of $4,200, for management consultation, legal services and various other professional services. F-46 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES NOTES TO COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 8 - Related-Party Transactions (continued) In addition to the transactions described above, the Ventures routinely enter into transactions with the Company or other affiliates of the Company (including AT&T), or other affiliates of the partners. Such transactions include roaming agreements and participation in the North American Cellular Network, among other things. Such transactions are not separately disclosed in the financial statements as they are carried out in the normal course of business. NOTE 9 - Commitments The Ventures lease office space, land and buildings for cell sites and vehicles under operating leases which expire through the year 2010. Total rent expense for the years ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992 was $14,902, $13,945 and $11,909, respectively. Some of the leases include escalation clauses based on increases in the Consumer Price Index. Several of the leases include options to extend the lease term. Future minimum payments under noncancellable operating leases with initial or remaining terms of one year or more at December 31, 1994 are: (in thousands) Amount ----------------------------------------------------- 1995 $13,769 1996 12,618 1997 11,148 1998 8,782 1999 5,153 2000 and beyond 8,255 ------- $59,725 ======= NOTE 10 - Contingencies The Ventures are from time to time defendants in and are threatened with various legal proceedings arising from their regular business activities. The Ventures are also party to routine filings with the FCC and state regulatory authorities and customary regulatory proceedings pending in connection with interconnection, rates, and practices and proceedings concerning the telecommunications industry in general and other proceedings which management does not expect to have a material adverse effect on the financial position or results of operations of the Ventures. F-47 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES NOTES TO COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 10 - Contingencies (continued) The Los Angeles cellular partnership and several related parties have been named as defendants in various actions brought in California state court by dealers, resellers and equipment sellers for the partnership. The lawsuits variously allege a variety of torts and statutory violations, including price-fixing regarding cellular equipment and service, below-cost sales of equipment, fraud, interference with economic relationship, unfair competition, discrimination among agents, and conspiracy. Several of these cases are scheduled for trial in 1995. The partnership intends to defend each lawsuit vigorously and believes that it has meritorious defenses to the allegations contained in the complaints. The Los Angeles cellular partnership, in some cases along with other cellular carriers, also has been named as a defendant in several class actions filed in California state court by current and former customers alleging violations of federal and state antitrust law as a result of price-fixing of cellular service. Trial dates have not been set for the pending cases. The partnership intends to defend each lawsuit vigorously and believes that it has meritorious defenses to the allegations contained in the complaints. A class action lawsuit originally filed in August 1993, has been instituted on behalf of Texas cellular subscribers in Texas state court against the Houston cellular partnership and several related parties, including the Company. As amended, the petition alleges that the liquidated damages and automatic renewal provisions in annual cellular subscriber contracts violate are or contrary to state law in several respects. Plaintiffs seek declaratory relief, damages, fees, costs and interest. Neither the class nor any of the subclasses alleged by the plaintiffs have been certified. Discovery is underway, but no trial date has been set. The partnership intends to defend the lawsuit vigorously and believes that it has meritorious defenses to the allegations contained in the petition. Each of the partnerships, subject to the above-described proceedings, does not expect that the ultimate results of any of such proceedings will have a material adverse effect on its financial position or results of operations. F-48 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PARENT COMPANY ONLY) SCHEDULE I - CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION BALANCE SHEETS DECEMBER 31, 1994 AND 1993 (Dollars in thousands, except share amounts) ASSETS 1994 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current Assets: Cash and cash equivalents $7,811 $3,551 Marketable securities -- 16,465 Other receivables 1,487 2,744 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total current assets 9,298 22,760 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investment in consolidated subsidiaries 346,216 -- Property and equipment, at cost, less accumulated depreciation 380 471 Other noncurrent assets 520 2,949 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Assets $356,414 $26,180 ========================================================================== LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current Liabilities: Accounts payable $201 $-- Payable to affiliates, net 49,610 57,435 Deficiency of investment in consolidated subsidiaries -- 1,061,401 Accrued expenses 6,733 1,321 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total current liabilities 56,544 1,120,157 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other noncurrent liabilities 2,132 8,388 Stockholders' Equity (Deficit): Common stock, $.01 par value, 150,000,000 shares authorized, 55,329,000 shares issued 553 553 Paid-in capital 1,055,169 224,689 Deficit (586,055) (1,150,205) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 469,667 (924,963) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Continued) F-49 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PARENT COMPANY ONLY) SCHEDULE I - CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION BALANCE SHEETS (Continued) DECEMBER 31, 1994 AND 1993 (Dollars in thousands, except share amounts) LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) (Continued) 1994 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Less common stock in treasury, at cost (1994-3,678,000 shares; 1993-3,826,000 shares) 171,929 177,402 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total stockholders' equity (deficit) 297,738 (1,102,365) Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity $356,414 $26,180 ============================================================================ This Schedule I should be read in conjunction with the LIN Broadcasting Corporation and Subsidiaries Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto. F-50 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PARENT COMPANY ONLY) SCHEDULE I - CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION (Continued) STATEMENTS OF INCOME FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands)
1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Revenues $-- $-- $-- Other Income (Expenses): Fees charged to subsidiaries and affiliates, net of corporate expenses 2,266 693 1,424 Depreciation (160) (149) (164) Litigation settlement -- -- 7,032 Other (249) 1,595 2,131 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Income Before Income Tax Expense and Equity in Income (Loss) of Subsidiaries 1,857 2,139 10,423 Income Tax Expense 650 749 3,648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Income Before Equity in Income (Loss) of Subsidiaries 1,207 1,390 6,775 Equity in Income (Loss) of Subsidiaries 562,943 (62,117) (75,727) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Income (Loss) $564,150 $(60,727) $(68,952) ================================================================================================= This Schedule I should be read in conjunction with the LIN Broadcasting Corporation and Subsidiaries Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto. F-51 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PARENT COMPANY ONLY) SCHEDULE I - CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION (Continued) STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NET CASH USED IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES $(18,146) $(5,196) $(16,580) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVESTING ACTIVITIES: Proceeds from sales of marketable securities 16,368 46,677 34,780 Purchases of marketable securities -- (43,705) (22,260) Proceeds from sale of equipment 28 92 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net cash provided by investing activities 16,396 3,064 12,520 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINANCING ACTIVITIES: Proceeds from common stock issued for stock purchase plan and stock options 7,104 4,145 1,641 Purchase of common stock for treasury (1,094) (1,798) (1,429) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net cash provided by financing activities 6,010 2,347 212 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents 4,260 215 (3,848) Cash and Cash Equivalents at Beginning of Year 3,551 3,336 7,184 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of Year $7,811 $3,551 $3,336 ============================================================================================== This Schedule I should be read in conjunction with the LIN Broadcasting Corporation and Subsidiaries Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto.
F-52 NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION NOTE A - Basis of Presentation In the parent company-only financial statements, the Company's investment in consolidated subsidiaries is stated at cost plus equity in undistributed earnings of consolidated subsidiaries since the date of acquisition. NOTE B - Dividends There have been no dividends paid by the Company's subsidiaries to the Company during the years ended December 31, 1994, 1993 and 1992. F-53 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES SCHEDULE II -VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS AND RESERVES FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands)
1994 1993 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance at Beginning of Year $18,138 $13,398 $11,869 Additions: Charged to income 18,200 14,359 14,930 Recoveries 8,088 7,939 4,911 Deductions: Accounts written off 23,547 17,558 18,312 Spin-off of LIN TV and divestiture of GuestInformant 3,484 -- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance at End of Year $17,395 $18,138 $13,398 =================================================================================================== F-54 LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES SCHEDULE II -VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS AND RESERVES FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1993 AND 1992 (Dollars in thousands) 1994 1993 1992 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balance at Beginning of Year $9,979 $14,638 $11,309 Additions: Charged to income 24,110 20,945 21,127 Deductions: Accounts written off 6,827 25,604 17,798 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Balance at End of Year $27,262 $9,979(1) $14,638 (2) (1) Includes $150 classified as long-term. (2) Includes $198 classified as long-term.
EX-3 2 EXHIBIT 3.2 AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS OF LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (As amended through March 9, 1994) BY-LAWS OF LIN BROADCASTING CORPORATION _________________________ ARTICLE I MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS SECTION 1. Annual Meetings The annual meeting of the stockholders of LIN Broadcasting Corporation (hereinafter called the Corporation) for the election of directors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting shall be held at such place in the City of New York, State of New York, as shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors of the Corporation (hereinafter called the Board) and specified in the notice of such meeting at 10:30 o'clock in the forenoon on the last Tuesday in April of each year (or, if that day shall be a legal holiday at the place where such meeting is to be held, then on the next succeeding business day). Such annual meeting for any particular year may be held on such different day and at such different time and place (either within or without the State of Delaware) as shall be fixed by the Board and specified in the notice of such meeting. At an annual meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be (a) specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, (b) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, or (c) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder. For business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder's notice must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, not less than 60 days or more than 90 days prior to the meeting; provided, however, that in the event that less than 70 days notice or prior public disclosure of the date of the meeting is given or made to stockholders, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so received not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the date on which such notice of the date of the annual meeting was mailed or such public disclosure was made. A stockholder's notice to the Secretary shall set forth as to each matter the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting (a) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, (b) the name and address, as they appear on the Corporation's books, of the stockholder proposing such business, (c) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are beneficially owned by the stockholder, and (d) any material interest of the stockholder in such business. Notwithstanding anything in the By-Laws to the contrary, no business shall be conducted at an annual meeting except in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1. The presiding officer of an annual meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that business was not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with the provisions of this Section; and if he should so determine, he shall so declare to the meeting and any such business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted. SECTION 2. Special Meetings A special meeting of the stockholders for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute, may be called at any time by the President or the Board. Special meetings of stockholders may be held either within or without the State of Delaware. SECTION 3. Notice of Meetings Except as otherwise required by law or by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, notice of each meeting of the stockholders shall be given at least 10 days before the day on which the meeting is to be held to each stockholder of record entitled to notice of, or to vote at, such meeting by mailing a copy of such notice in a postage prepaid envelope addressed to him at his last post office address appearing on the stock records of the Corporation. Except as otherwise expressly required by law, no publication of any notice of a meeting of the stockholders shall be required. Every such notice shall state the time and place of the meeting and, in the case of a special meeting, shall state briefly the purposes for which it was called. Notice of any meeting need not be given to any stockholder who attends such meeting in person or by proxy. Except as otherwise expressly required by law, notice of any adjourned meeting of the stockholders need not be given. SECTION 4. Quorum At each meeting of the stockholders, except as otherwise expressly required by law, if stockholders holding not less than a majority of the shares of stock of the Corporation issued, outstanding and entitled to be voted thereat are present in person or by proxy, they shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In the absence of a quorum at any such meeting or any adjournment or adjournments thereof, a majority in voting interest of those present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereat, or in the absence therefrom of all the stockholders, any officer entitled to preside at, or to act as secretary of, such meeting may adjourn such meeting from time to time until stockholders holding the amount of stock requisite for a quorum shall be present or represented. At any such adjourned meeting at which a quorum may be present any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called. SECTION 5. Organization At each meeting of the stockholders, one of the following shall act as a chairman of the meeting and preside thereat, in the following order of precedence: (a) the President; (b) any Vice President designated by the Board or the Executive Committee or the President to act as chairman of said meeting and to preside thereat; or (c) a stockholder of record of the Corporation who shall be chosen chairman of such meeting by a majority in voting interest of the stockholders present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereat. The Secretary, or, if he shall be absent from such meeting, the person (who shall be an Assistant Secretary, if an Assistant Secretary shall be present thereat) whom the chairman of such meeting shall appoint, shall act as secretary of such meeting and keep the minutes thereof. SECTION 6. Order of Business The order of business at each meeting of the stockholders shall be determined by the chairman of such meeting, but such order of business at any meeting at which a quorum is present may be changed by the vote of a majority in voting interest of those present in person or by proxy at such meeting and entitled to vote thereat. SECTION 7. Voting Each stockholder shall at each meeting of the stockholders be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for each share of stock of the Corporation which has voting power on the matter in question and which shall have been held by him and registered in his name on the books of the Corporation: (a) on the date fixed pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 of Article VI of these By-Laws as the record date for the determination of stockholders who shall be entitled to receive notice of, and to vote at, such meeting; or (b) in the event that no such record date shall have been so fixed, then at the date of such meeting; provided, however, that, except where the transfer books of the Corporation shall have been closed, no share of stock of the Corporation shall be voted on at any election of directors which shall have been transferred on the books of the Corporation within 20 days next preceding such election of directors. Shares of its own stock belonging to the Corporation shall not be voted upon directly or indirectly. Any vote on stock of the Corporation may be given at any meeting of the stockholders by the stockholder entitled thereto in person or by his proxy appointed by an instrument in writing delivered to the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or to the secretary of the meeting. The attendance at any meeting of a stockholder who may theretofore have given a proxy shall not have the effect of revoking the same unless he shall in writing so notify the secretary of the meeting prior to the voting of the proxy. At all meetings of the stockholders all matters, except as otherwise provided in these By-Laws or by law, shall be decided by the vote of a majority in voting interest of the stockholders present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereat and thereon, a quorum being present. Except in the case of votes for the election of directors, the vote at any meeting of the stockholders on any question need not be by ballot, unless so directed by the chairman of the meeting. On a vote by ballot each ballot shall be signed by the stockholder voting, or by his proxy, if there be such proxy. SECTION 8. List of Stockholders It shall be the duty of the Secretary or other officer of the Corporation who shall have charge of its stock ledger, either directly or through another officer of the Corporation designated by him or through a transfer agent or transfer clerk appointed by the Board, to prepare and make, at least 10 days before every meeting of the stockholders called to be held for the election of directors of the Corporation, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at said election, arranged in alphabetical order by class and series thereof and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares of such class or series registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder during ordinary business hours for a period of at least 10 days prior to said meeting and election, either at a place within the city, town or village where said meeting and election are to be held and which place shall be specified in the notice of said meeting or, if not so specified, at the place where said meeting and election are to be held, and such list shall be produced and kept at the time and place of said meeting and election during the whole time thereof and shall be subject to the inspection of any stockholder who may be present thereat. The original or duplicate stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine such list or the books of the Corporation or to vote in person or by proxy at such election. SECTION 9. Inspectors or Judges The Board, in advance of any meeting of stockholders, may appoint one or more inspectors or judges to act at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. If the inspectors or judges shall not be so appointed, or if any of them shall fail to appear or act, the chairman of such meeting shall appoint the inspectors or judges, or such replacement or replacements therefor, as the case may be. Such inspectors or judges, before entering on the discharge of their duties, shall take and sign an oath or affirmation faithfully to execute the duties of inspectors or judges at meetings for which they are appointed. At such meeting, the inspectors or judges shall receive and take charge of the proxies and ballots and decide all questions relating to the qualification of voters and the validity of proxies and the acceptance or rejection of votes. An inspector or judge need not be a stockholder of the Corporation, and any officer of the Corporation may be an inspector or judge on any questions other than a vote for or against his election to any position with the Corporation. SECTION 10. Procedures for Action by Written Consent The following procedures shall govern actions by written consent of stockholders: (a) Any action which may be taken at any meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken shall be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted. (b) A record date for determining stockholders entitled to express consent to stockholder action in writing without a meeting shall be fixed by the Board of Directors of the Corporation (a "Consent Record Date"). Any stockholder seeking to have the stockholders authorize or take action by written consent without a meeting shall give written notice either by personal delivery or by United States mail, postage prepaid, to the Secretary of the Corporation, of such stockholder's intent to take action by written consent, which notice shall request the Board of Directors to fix a Consent Record Date. The Board of Directors shall, upon receipt of such notice, fix as the Consent Record Date a date no later than 30 days after the receipt of such notice or such later date as shall be requested by such stockholder. (c) Any action to be taken by written consent shall be effective only upon delivery to the Secretary of the Corporation within 60 days after the Consent Record Date of duly executed and valid written consents of the holder or holders of shares of outstanding stock of the Corporation having the requisite voting power to authorize or take such action. ARTICLE II BOARD OF DIRECTORS SECTION 1. General Powers The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by the Board. SECTION 2. Number and Time of Holding Office Subject to the requirements of the laws of the State of Delaware, the Board may from time to time by the vote of the majority of the whole Board determine the number of directors. The term "whole Board" as used in the By-Laws shall mean the number of positions on the Board regardless of the number of directors then in office. Until the Board shall otherwise so determine, the number of directors shall be ten. Each of the directors of the Corporation shall hold office until the annual meeting next after his election and until his successor shall be elected. Directors need not be stockholders. SECTION 3. Notification of Nominations Subject to the rights of the holders of any class or series of stock having a preference over the Common Stock as to dividends or upon liquidation, nominations for the election of directors may be made by the Board of Directors or by any stockholder entitled to vote for the election of directors. Any stockholder entitled to vote for the election of directors at a meeting may nominate persons for election as directors only if written notice of such stockholder's intent to make such nomination is given, either by personal delivery or by United States mail, postage prepaid, to the Secretary of the Corporation not later than (i) with respect to an election to be held at an annual meeting of stockholders, 90 days in advance of such meeting, and (ii) with respect to an election to be held at a special meeting of stockholders for the election of directors, the close of business on the seventh day following the date on which notice of such meeting is first given to stockholders. Each such notice shall set forth: (a) the name and address of the stockholder who intends to make the nomination and of the person or persons to be nominated; (b) a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the person or persons specified in the notice; (c) a description of all arrangements or understandings between the stockholder and each nominee and any other person or persons (naming such person or persons) pursuant to which the nomination or nominations are to be made by the stockholder; (d) such other information regarding each nominee proposed by such stockholder as would have been required to be included in a proxy statement filed pursuant to the proxy rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission had each nominee been nominated, or intended to have been nominated, by the Board of Directors; and (e) the consent of each nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation if so elected. The chairman of the meeting may refuse to acknowledge the nomination of any person not made after compliance with the foregoing procedure. SECTION 4. Election of Directors At each meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors at which a quorum is present the persons receiving the greatest number of votes, up to the number of directors to be elected, shall be the directors. SECTION 5. Organization and Order of Business At each meeting of the Board, one of the following shall act as chairman of the meeting and preside thereat, in the following order of precedence; (a) the Chairman of the Board; (b) the President; or (c) any director chosen by a majority of the directors present thereat. The Secretary, or, if he shall be absent from such meeting, the person whom the chairman of such meeting shall appoint, shall act as secretary of such meeting and keep the minutes thereof. The order of business at each meeting of the Board shall be determined by the chairman of such meeting. SECTION 6. Resignations Any director may resign at any time by giving written notice of his resignation to the Board, the President or the Secretary. Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or, if the time when it shall become effective shall not be specified therein, then it shall take effect immediately upon its receipt by the Board, the President or the Secretary. Except as specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. SECTION 7. Vacancies, etc. In case of any vacancy on the Board or in case of any newly created directorship, a director to fill the vacancy or the newly created directorship for the unexpired portion of the term being filled may be elected by the holders of shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote in respect thereof at an annual or special meeting of said holders or by a majority of the directors of the Corporation then in office though less than a quorum. SECTION 8. Place of Meeting The Board may hold its meetings at such place or places within or without the State of Delaware as the Board may from time to time by resolution determine or shall be specified or fixed in the respective notices or waivers of notice thereof. SECTION 9. Annual Meeting As soon as practicable after each annual election of directors, the Board shall meet for the purpose of organization, the election of officers and the transaction of other business. Unless the Board shall by resolution otherwise determine, such meeting shall be held at the time and place theretofore fixed by the Board for the next regular meeting of the Board, and no notice thereof need be given. If the Board shall determine that such meeting shall be held at a different place and time, notice thereof shall be given in the manner hereinafter provided for special meetings of the Board. SECTION 10. Regular Meetings Regular Meetings of the Board shall be held at such times as the Board shall from time to time determine. Notices of regular meetings need not be given. If any day fixed for a regular meeting shall be a legal holiday at the place where the meeting is to be held, then the meeting which would otherwise be held on that day shall be postponed until the same hour of the next succeeding business day. SECTION 11. Special Meetings; Notice Special meetings of the Board shall be held whenever called by the Chairman of the Board, the President or any two of the directors. A notice of each such special meeting shall be given as hereinafter in this Section provided, which notice shall specify the time and place of such meeting, but, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the purposes thereof need not be stated in such notice. Notice of each such meeting shall be mailed to each director, addressed to him at his residence or usual place of business at least two days before the day on which such meeting is to be held or shall be sent addressed to him at such place by telegraph, cable, wireless or other form of recorded communication or be delivered personally or by telephone not later than the day before the day on which such meeting is to be held. Notice of any meeting of the Board need not, however, be given to any director if waived by him in writing or by telegraph, cable, wireless or other form of recorded communication before, during or after such meeting or if he shall be present at such meeting; and any meeting of the Board shall be a legal meeting without any notice thereof having been given if all the directors of the Corporation then in office shall be present thereat. SECTION 12. Quorum and Manner of Acting Except as otherwise provided in these By-Laws or by law, 50% of the whole Board shall be present in person at any meeting of the Board in order to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at such meeting, and the act of a majority of the directors present at any such meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board. In the absence of a quorum, a majority of the directors present thereat may adjourn such meeting from time to time until a quorum shall be present thereat. Notice of any adjourned meeting need not be given. The directors shall act only as a board and the individual directors shall have no power as such. SECTION 13. Action by Consent Any action which could be taken at a meeting of the Board or of any committee appointed by the Board may be taken without a meeting if a written consent setting forth the action so taken is signed by each of the Directors or by each committee member. Any such written consent shall be inserted in the minute book as if it were the minutes of a Board or a committee meeting. ARTICLE III COMMITTEES SECTION 1. Executive Committee; Number, Appointment, Term of Office, etc. The Board, by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole Board, may designate an Executive Committee consisting of the President of the Corporation and not less than two nor more than six of the other directors then in office. Each member of the Executive Committee shall continue to be a member thereof only so long as he remains a director and at the pleasure of a majority of the whole Board. Any vacancies on the Executive Committee may be filled by the majority of the whole Board. The term "whole Executive Committee" as used in these By-Laws shall mean the number of positions on the Executive Committee regardless of the number of members thereof then in the office. SECTION 2. Functions and Powers The Executive Committee, between meetings of the Board of Directors, shall have and may exercise the powers of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation; provided, however, that except as may be otherwise provided in the Delaware General Corporation Law as now or hereafter in effect, neither the Executive Committee nor any other committee of the Board shall have the power or authority of the Board in reference to (a) amending the Certificate of Incorporation, (b) adopting a plan of merger or consolidation, (c) recommending to the stockholders the sale, lease or exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the corporation other than in the usual and regular course of business, (d) recommending to the stockholders a voluntary dissolution or a revocation thereof, (e) amending these By-laws, (f) declaring a dividend, or (g) authorizing the issuance of stock. The Executive Committee may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. SECTION 3. Organization At each meeting of the Executive Committee, one of the following shall act as chairman of the meeting and preside thereat in the following order of precedence: (a) the President; or (b) any member of the Executive Committee chosen by a majority of the Executive Committee present thereat. SECTION 4. Meetings Regular meetings of the Executive Committee, of which no notice shall be necessary, shall be held on such days and at such places within or without the State of Delaware as shall be fixed by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole Executive Committee and communicated to all its members. Special meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held whenever called by the President, the Secretary or any two members of the Executive Committee then in office. Notice of each special meeting of the Executive Committee shall be given to each member thereof, addressed to him at his residence or usual place of business at least two days before the day on which such meeting is to be held by mail, telegraph, cable, wireless or other form of recorded communication or be delivered personally or by telephone not later than the day before the day on which such meeting is to be held. Notice of any such meeting need not, however, be given to any member of the Executive Committee if waived by him in writing or by telegraph, cable, wireless or other form of recorded communication, before, during or after such meeting or if he shall be present at such meeting; and any meeting of the Executive Committee shall be a legal meeting without any notice thereof having been given if all the members of the Executive Committee shall be present thereat. The purposes of a meeting need not be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of any meeting. Subject to the provisions of these By-Laws, by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole Executive Committee, the Executive Committee shall fix its own rules or procedure, and it shall keep a record of its proceedings and report them to the Board at the next regular meeting thereof after such proceedings shall have been taken. SECTION 5. Quorum and Manner of Acting Except as otherwise provided in these By-Laws or by law, a majority of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the act of a majority of those present at a meeting thereof at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Executive Committee. The members of the Executive Committee shall act only as a committee, and the individual members shall have no power as such. SECTION 6. Resignations Any member of the Executive Committee may resign therefrom at any time by giving written notice of his resignation to the Board, the President, or the Secretary. Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or, if the time when it shall become effective shall not be specified therein, then it shall take effect immediately upon its receipt by the Board, the President or the Secretary; and unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. SECTION 7. Other Committees The Board, by resolution adopted by a majority of the whole Board, may designate one or more other committees, which shall in each case consist of such number of directors and shall have and may exercise such power of the Board for such periods as the Board may determine in the respective resolutions designating such committees or from time to time. A majority of all the members of any such committee may fix its rules of procedure, determine its action, fix the time and place, whether within or without the State of Delaware, of its meetings and specify what notice thereof, if any, shall be given, unless the Board shall by resolution otherwise provide. Each member of any such committee shall continue to be a member thereof only so long as he remains a director and at the pleasure of a majority of the whole Board. Any vacancies on any such committee may be filled by a majority of the whole Board. ARTICLE IV OFFICERS SECTION 1. Titles The principal officers of the Corporation shall be a Chairman of the Board (who shall serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation), a President, one or more Vice Presidents (including Group Vice Presidents and other designations as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine), a Secretary, a Treasurer and a Controller. Other officers may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of SECTION 3 of this ARTICLE IV. One person may hold the office and perform the duties of any two or more of such officers; provided, however, that the offices of President and Secretary shall not b held by the same individual. SECTION 2. Election, Term of Office and Qualifications The principal officers shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors. Each officer, except as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of SECTION 3 of this ARTICLE IV, shall hold office until his successor shall have been chosen and shall qualify or until his death or until his earlier resignation or removal in the manner hereinafter provided. To qualify to serve as an officer of this Corporation, an individual shall, prior to his election, satisfy all conditions and qualifications set forth in these By-Laws and all applicable statutes, rules and regulations. SECTION 3. Additional Officers The Board of Directors may from time to time appoint such other officers and assistant officers as it may deem necessary, such officers to hold office for such period, have such authority and perform such duties as are provided in these By-laws or as the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer may prescribe. The Board of Directors may delegate to any officer or agent the power to appoint and to remove any such subordinate officers or agents and to prescribe their respective terms of office, authority and duties. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person. SECTION 4. Removal Any officer or agent elected or appointed by the Board of Directors may be removed by the Board of Directors whenever in its judgment the best interests of the corporation would be served thereby, but such removal shall be without prejudice to the contract rights, if any, of the person so removed. SECTION 5. Resignations Any officer may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Chairman of the Board or to the President or to the Secretary. Such resignation shall take effect upon receipt of such notice or at any later time specified therein; and unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. SECTION 6. Vacancies A vacancy in any office because of death, resignation, removal or other causes shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term in the manner prescribed by these By-Laws for regular election or appointment to such office. SECTION 7. The Chairman of the Board The Chairman of the Board shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall have general supervision over the policies and direction of the Corporation, subject to the control of the Board of Directors. He shall, when present, preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and of the stockholders. In general, he shall perform all the duties incident to the office of the Chairman of the Board, shall give advice and counsel to the President and the other officers of the Corporation with respect to the policies and directions of the Corporation, shall supervise the selection of all banks and other financial and investment institutions which shall transact business with the Corporation, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or as may be prescribed in these By-Laws. In the absence or inability to act of the Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President designated by the Chairman of the Board or, in the absence of a designation by him, by the Board of Directors, shall perform the duties of the Chairman of the Board. SECTION 8. The President The President shall be the chief operating officer of the Corporation and have general and active supervision over the business and affairs of the Corporation, subject to the control of the Chairman of the Board. In general, he shall perform all such duties as the Chairman of the Board or the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or as may be prescribed by these By-Laws. In the temporary absence or inability to act of the President, the Chairman of the Board or the Board of Directors may designate some other officer to perform the duties of the President. SECTION 9. Vice Presidents Each Vice President, including Group Vice Presidents and other designations of Vice Presidents, shall have such powers and perform such duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Chief Executive Officer, or by any other office to whom the right to prescribe such powers and duties has been delegated by the Chief Executive Officer or by the Board of Directors, or as may be prescribed in these By-Laws. SECTION 10. The Secretary The Secretary, if present, shall act as secretary at all meetings of the Board of Directors and of stockholders and keep the minutes thereof in a book or books to be provided for that purpose; shall see that all notices required to be given by the Corporation are duly given and served; shall be custodian of the seal of the Corporation and shall affix the seal (or a facsimile thereof) or cause it to be affixed to all certificates of stock of the Corporation and to all documents the execution of which on behalf of the Corporation under its seal shall be duly authorized in accordance with the provisions of these By-Laws; shall have charge of the option records of the Corporation; shall see that all reports, statements and other documents required by law (other than reports, statements and documents relating to financial and tax matters) are properly kept and filed; may sign, with any other proper officer of the Corporation thereunto authorized, certificates for stock of the Corporation; shall be responsible for monitoring compliance by the Corporation with equal employment opportunity laws, rules and regulations of the Corporation and governmental agencies; and, in general, shall perform all the duties incident to the office of Secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Chief Executive Officer or the Board of Directors. SECTION 11. Assistant Secretaries The Assistant Secretaries shall perform such duties as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Chief Executive Officer, the Secretary or the Board of Directors. At the request of the Secretary or, in case of his absence or inability to act, at the request of the Chief Executive Officer, any Assistant Secretary may act in his place. SECTION 12. The Vice President - Finance The Vice President - Finance shall be the chief financial officer of the Corporation and in such capacity he shall have charge and custody of, and be responsible for, all funds of and securities owned by the Corporation, and shall deposit, withdraw and transfer all such funds in the name of the Corporation in such banks or other depositories which shall transact business with the Corporation; shall formulate the investment and financial policies of the Corporation for submission to the Chief Executive Officer; shall render a statement of the condition of the finances of the Corporation at all regular meetings of the Board and prepare a full financial report annually for delivery to the stockholders; shall receive and give receipt for monies due and payable to the Corporation from any source whatsoever; shall be responsible for the preparation and finalization of all accounting procedures and all financial budgets and projections of the Corporation and the preparation and filing of all tax returns and financial reports with governmental entities; and, in general, shall perform all the duties incident to the office of chief financial officer and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Chief Executive Officer or the Board or Directors. SECTION 13. Treasurer The Treasurer shall have the charge and custody of, and shall supervise all transfers of, all the certificates representing capital stock of the Corporation and may sign, with any other proper officer of the Corporation, thereunto authorized, certificates representing capital stock of the Corporation; shall manage the relationships of the Corporation with all banks and other financial and investment institutions which shall transact business with the Corporation; and shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Chief Executive Officer or the Board of Directors. SECTION 14. Assistant Treasurers The Assistant Treasurers shall perform such duties as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Chief Executive Officer, the Treasurer or the Board of Directors. At the request of the Treasurer or, in case of his absence or inability to act, at the request of the Chief Executive Officer, any Assistant Treasurer may act in his place. SECTION 15. Controller The Controller shall be under the supervision of the Vice President - Finance and shall have primary responsibility for the accounting principles and procedures and internal controls to be followed by the Corporation; the collection of accounts receivable and payment of accounts payable; the preparation of periodic reports relating to profit and loss, capital budgets, and expenses; the coordination of the annual audit of the Corporation's financial condition and results of operations with the Corporation's independent accounting firm; accounting and recordkeeping with respect to each of the Corporation's various employee benefit and insurance plans; and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Chief Executive Officer or the Vice President - Finance. SECTION 16. Salaries The salary of the Chairman of the Board shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors or by any committee to which the power to fix such salary is delegated by the Board. The salaries of all other officers, agents, factors and employees of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time by the Chief Executive Officer. No officer shall be prevented from receiving such salary by reason of the fact that he is also a director of the Corporation or a member of any committee contemplated by these By-Laws. ARTICLE V CONTRACTS, DEPOSITS AND PROXIES SECTION 1. Execution of Contracts, etc. Except as otherwise required by law or by these By-Laws, all the executive officers of the Corporation shall have power to execute and deliver any deeds, contracts, mortgages, bonds, debentures and other documents for and in the name of the Corporation. The Board may authorize any other officer or officers or agent or agents to execute and deliver any contract or other instrument in the name and on behalf of the Corporation, and such authority may be general or confined to such specific instances as the Board may by resolution determine. SECTION 2. Deposits All funds of the Corporation not otherwise employed shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the Corporation or otherwise as the Board or the President shall direct in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Board may select or may be selected by any executive officer, or other officer or agent of the Corporation to whom power in that respect shall have been delegated by the Board. For the purpose of deposit and for the purpose of collection for the account of the Corporation, checks, drafts and other orders for the payment of money which are payable to the order of the Corporation may be endorsed, assigned and delivered by any executive officer or agent of the Corporation. SECTION 3. Proxies in Respect of Stock or Other Securities of Other Corporations Unless otherwise provided by resolution adopted by the Board, the Chairman of the Board, the President, or a Vice President may from time to time appoint an attorney or attorneys or agent or agents of the Corporation to exercise in the name and on behalf of the Corporation the powers and rights which the Corporation may have as the holder of stock or other securities in any other corporation to vote or consent in respect of such stock or other securities, the Chairman of the Board, the President, or a Vice President may instruct the person or persons so appointed as to the manner of exercising such powers and rights; and the Chairman of the Board, the President, or a Vice President may execute or cause to be executed in the name and on behalf of the Corporation and under its corporate seal, or otherwise, all such written proxies, powers of attorney or other instruments as he may deem necessary or proper in order that the Corporation may exercise its said powers and rights. ARTICLE VI SHARES AND THEIR TRANSFER: EXAMINATION OF BOOKS SECTION 1. Certificates for Stock Every owner of stock of the Corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate or certificates, in such form as the Board shall prescribe, certifying the number, class and series, if any, of shares of stock of the Corporation owned by him. The certificates representing shares of the respective classes and series, if any, of such stock shall be numbered in the order in which they shall be issued and shall be signed in the name of the Corporation by the person who was at the time of signing the President, or a Vice President and by the person who was at the time of the signing the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and the seal of the Corporation shall be affixed thereto; provided, however, that where any such certificate is signed (a) by a transfer agent or assistant transfer agent or (b) by a transfer clerk acting on behalf of the Corporation and a registrar, the signature thereon of such President or Vice President and of such Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or Secretary or Assistant Secretary and the seal of the Corporation affixed thereto may be facsimile. In case any officer or the officers of the Corporation who shall have signed, or whose facsimile signature or signatures shall have been used on, any such certificate or certificates shall cease to be such officer or officers, whether because of death, resignation or otherwise, before such certificate or certificates shall have been delivered by the Corporation, such certificate or certificates may nevertheless be issued and delivered as though the person or persons who signed such certificate or certificates or whose facsimile signature or signatures shall have been used thereon had not ceased to be such officer or officers. A record shall be kept of the respective names of the persons, firms or corporations owning the stock represented by certificates for stock of the Corporation, the number, class and series, if any, of shares represented by such certificates, respectively, the respective dates thereof, and, in case of cancellation, the respective dates of cancellation. Every certificate surrendered to the Corporation for exchange or transfer shall be cancelled, and a new certificate or certificates shall be issued in exchange for any existing certificate only after such existing certificate shall have been so cancelled, except in cases provided for in Section 4 of this Article VI. SECTION 2. Transfer of Stock Transfers of shares of the stock of the Corporation shall be made only on the books of the Corporation by the registered holder thereof, or by his attorney thereunto authorized by power of attorney duly executed and filed with the Secretary or with a transfer clerk or a transfer agent appointed as in Section 3 of this Article VI provided, and upon surrender of the certificate or certificates for such shares properly endorsed and payment of all taxes thereon. The person in whose name shares of stock stand on the books of the Corporation shall be deemed the owner thereof for all purposes as regards the Corporation. Whenever any transfer of shares shall be made for collateral security, and not absolutely, such fact, if known to the Corporation or to the transfer agent or clerk making the transfer, shall be so expressed in the entry of transfer. The transfer agent or clerk shall inquire, prior to the transfer of shares of stock of the Corporation, whether such stock is to be owned of record or voted by or on behalf of an alien or foreign government, shall maintain a record of shares so owned or to be so voted, and shall not transfer any shares of stock upon the books of the Corporation if the result of such transfer would be that more than 25% of the stock would be so owned or voted. SECTION 3. Regulations The Board may make such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with these By-Laws, concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates for stock of the Corporation. The Board may appoint or authorize any officer or officers to appoint one or more transfer clerks or one or more transfer agents and one or more registrars and may require all certificates for stock to bear the signature or signatures of any of them. SECTION 4. Lost, Destroyed and Mutilated Certificates The Corporation may issue a new certificate of stock of the Corporation in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost or destroyed, or which shall have been mutilated, and the Board, in its discretion, may require the owner of such certificate, or his legal representatives, to give the Corporation a bond in such sum, limited or unlimited, in such form and with such surety or sureties as the Board shall in its uncontrolled discretion determine to be sufficient to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss or destruction of any such certificate, or the issuance of such new certificate. SECTION 5. Date for Determining Stockholders of Record (a) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action other than stockholder action by written consent, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which shall not precede the date such record date is fixed and shall not be more than 60 days nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting, nor more than 60 days prior to any such other action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given. The record date for any other purpose other than stockholder action by written consent shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record the adjourned meeting. (b) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and shall not be more than 10 days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors. Any stockholder of record seeking to have the stockholders authorize or take corporate action by written consent shall, by written notice to the Secretary, request the Board of Directors to fix a record date. The Board of Directors shall promptly, but in any event within l0 days after the date on which such a request is received, adopt a resolution fixing the record date. If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors within 10 days of the date on which such a request is received, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board of Directors is required by applicable law, shall be the first date on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the Corporation by delivery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or any officer or agent of the Corporation having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded. Delivery made to the Corporation's registered office shall be by hand or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors and prior action by the Board of Directors is required by applicable law, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting shall be at the close of business on the date of which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution taking such prior action. SECTION 6. Examination of Books and Records by Stockholders The Board of Directors shall, subject to any applicable statutes, have the power to determine, from time to time, whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions and regulations the accounts and books or documents of the Corporation, or any of them, shall be open to the inspection of stockholders; and no stockholder shall have any right to inspect any account or book or document of the Corporation except as conferred by and only in accordance with the provisions of any such statute, unless and until authorized to do so by resolution of the Board of Directors or of the stockholders of the Corporation entitled to vote in respect thereof. SECTION 7. Registered Stockholders The Corporation shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share or shares of capital stock of this Corporation as the holder in fact thereof, and accordingly shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as expressly provided by the laws of the State of Delaware. ARTICLE VII OFFICES, ETC. SECTION 1. Principal Office The principal office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware shall be in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, and the name of the resident agent in charge thereof shall be The Corporation Trust Company. SECTION 2. Other Offices The Corporation may also have an office or offices other than said principal office at such place or places, either within or without the State of Delaware, as provided in these By-Laws or as the Board may from time to time appoint or as the business of the Corporation may require. SECTION 3. Books and Records Except as otherwise required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or these By-Laws, the Corporation may keep the books and records of the Corporation in such place or places within or without the State of Delaware as the Board may from time to time by resolution determine or the business of the Corporation may require. ARTICLE VIII DIVIDENDS Subject to the provisions of law, of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or these By-Laws, the Board may declare and pay dividends upon the shares of the stock of the Corporation either (a) out of its net assets in excess of its capital as computed in accordance with the provisions of the laws of the State of Delaware or (b) in case there shall be no such excess, out of its net profits for the fiscal year then current and/or the preceding fiscal year, whenever and in such amounts as, in the opinion of the Board, the condition of the affairs of the Corporation shall render it advisable. ARTICLE IX SEAL The Board shall provide a corporate seal, which shall be in the form of a circle and shall bear the full name of the Corporation and the words and figures "Corporate Seal Delaware 1961," or words and figures of similar import. The seal or a facsimile thereof may be impressed or affixed or reproduced or other use made thereof by the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary or any other officer authorized by the Board. ARTICLE X FISCAL YEARS The fiscal year of the Corporation shall end on December 31 in each year. ARTICLE XI WAIVER OF NOTICES Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given by these By-Laws or by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or by the laws of the State of Delaware, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to said notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto. ARTICLE XII INDEMNIFICATION SECTION 1. Indemnification The Corporation shall to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than permitted prior thereto) or by applicable law as then in effect indemnify and hold harmless any person (the "Indemnitee") who is or was a director or officer of the Corporation and who is or was involved in any manner (including, without limitation, as a party or a witness) or is threatened to be made so involved in any threatened, pending or completed investigation, claim, action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (including, without limitation, any action, suit or proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor) (a "Proceeding") by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including, without limitation, any employee benefit plan) whether the basis of such Proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as such a director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as such a director, officer, employee or agent, against all expenses (including attorneys' fees and ERISA excise taxes or penalties), liabilities, losses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such Proceeding and such indemnification shall continue as to an Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent; provided, however, except as provided in Section 4(d), the foregoing shall not apply to a director or officer of the Corporation with respect to a Proceeding (or part thereof) that was commenced by such director or officer unless the Proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or ratified by the Board. Such indemnification shall be a contract right and shall include the right to receive payment in advance for any expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in accordance with Section 4 of this Article.. SECTION 2. Insurance, Contracts and Funding The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including, without limitation, any employee benefit plan, against any expenses, liabilities, losses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expenses, liabilities, losses, judgments, fines or amounts paid in settlement under the Delaware General Corporation Law. The Corporation may enter into contracts with any person entitled to indemnification under this Article in furtherance of the provisions of this Article and may create a trust fund, grant a security interest or use other means (including, without limitation, a letter of credit) to ensure the payment of such amounts as may be necessary to effect indemnification as provided in this Article. SECTION 3. Indemnification; Not Exclusive Right The indemnification provided for in this Article shall not be exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may otherwise be entitled, and the provisions of this Article shall inure to the benefit of the heirs and legal representatives of any person entitled to indemnity under this Article and shall be applicable to Proceedings commenced or continuing after the adoption of this Article, whether arising from acts or omissions occurring before or after such adoption. SECTION 4. Advancement of Expenses; Procedures; Presumptions and Effect of Certain Proceedings; Remedies In furtherance, but not in limitation, of the foregoing provisions, the following procedures, presumptions and remedies shall apply with respect to advancement of expenses and the right to indemnification under this Article: (a) Advancement of Expenses. All reasonable expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Indemnitee in connection with any Proceeding shall be advanced to the Indemnitee by the Corporation within 20 days after the receipt by the Corporation of a statement or statements from the Indemnitee requesting such advance or advances from time to time, whether prior to or after final disposition of such Proceeding. Such statement or statements shall reasonably evidence the expenses incurred by the Indemnitee and, if required by law at the time of such advance, shall include or be accompanied by an undertaking by or on behalf of the Indemnitee to repay the amounts advanced if it should ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal that the Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified against such expenses pursuant to this Article. (b) Procedure for Determination of Entitlement to Indemnification. To obtain indemnification under this Article, an Indemnitee shall submit to the Secretary of the Corporation a written request, including such documentation and information as is reasonably available to the Indemnitee and reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent the Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification (the "Supporting Documentation"). The determination of the Indemnitee's entitlement to indemnification shall be made not later than 60 days after receipt by the Corporation of the written request for indemnification together with the Supporting Documentation. The Secretary of the Corporation shall, promptly upon receipt of such a request for indemnification, advise the Board of Directors in writing that the Indemnitee has requested indemnification. (c) Presumptions. The Indemnitee shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification under this Article upon submission of a request for indemnification together with the Supporting Documentation in accordance with Section 4(b) of this Article, and the Corporation shall have the burden of proof to overcome that presumption in reaching a contrary determination. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a determination that indemnification of the Indemnitee is proper in the circumstances prior to the commencement of a judicial proceeding under the provisions of Section 4(d) of this Article nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification shall be a defense to the judicial proceeding or create a presumption that the Indemnitee is not so entitled. The termination of any Proceeding described in Section 1, or of any claim, issue or matter therein, by judgment, order, settlement or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, adversely affect the right of the Indemnitee to indemnification or create a presumption that the Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation or, with respect to any criminal Proceeding, that the Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. (d) Remedies of Indemnitee. (i) If a claim under this Article is not paid in full by the Corporation within 60 days after a written request has been submitted to the Corporation in accordance with the provisions of Section 4(b) of this Article or, in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, 20 days after the receipt by the Corporation of a statement requesting such advance in accordance with the provisions of Section 4(a) of this Article, then the Indemnitee shall be entitled to seek an adjudication of his entitlement to such indemnification in an appropriate court of the State of Delaware or any other court of competent jurisdiction. (ii) The Corporation shall be precluded from asserting in any judicial proceeding commenced pursuant to this Section 4(d) that the procedures and presumptions of this Article are not valid, binding and enforceable and shall stipulate in any such court that the Corporation is bound by all the provisions of this Article. (iii) In the event that the Indemnitee, pursuant to this Section 4(d), seeks a judicial adjudication to enforce his rights under, or to recover damages for breach of, this Article, the Indemnitee shall be entitled to recover from the Corporation, and shall be indemnified by the Corporation against, any expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee if the Indemnitee prevails in such judicial adjudication in whole or in part. SECTION 5. Effect of Amendments Neither the amendment or repeal of, nor the adoption of a provision inconsistent with, any provision of this Article (including, without limitation, this Section 5) shall adversely affect the rights of any director or officer under this Article with respect to any Proceeding arising out of any action or omission occurring prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision, in either case without the written consent of such director or officer. SECTION 6. Severability If any provision or provisions of this Article shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever, (a) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Article (including, without limitation, all portions of any paragraph of this Article containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that are not themselves invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby; and (b) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Article (including, without limitation, all portions of any paragraph of this Article containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that are not themselves invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested by the provision held invalid, illegal or unenforceable. SECTION 7. Indemnification of Employees and Agents Notwithstanding any other provision or provisions of this Article, the Corporation may indemnify any person (other than a director or officer of the Corporation) who is or who was involved in any manner (including, without limitation, as a party or a witness) or is threatened to be made so involved in any Proceeding by reason of the fact that such person is or was an employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including, without limitation, any employee benefit plan) against all expenses (including attorneys' fees and ERISA excise taxes or penalties), liabilities, losses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such Proceeding. SECTION 8. Persons Serving Other Entities Any person who is or was a director, officer or employee of the Corporation who is or was serving (a) as a director or officer of another corporation of which a majority of the shares entitled to vote in the election of its directors is held by the Corporation or (b) in an executive or management capacity in a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise of which the Corporation or a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation is a general partner or has a majority ownership shall be deemed to be so serving at the request of the Corporation and entitled to indemnification and advancement of expenses as provided under this Article. ARTICLE XIII AMENDMENTS These By-Laws may be amended, altered or repealed by the Board; but any by-laws made by the Board may be altered, amended or repealed by the stockholders. EX-10 3 EXHIBIT 10.2(b) Amendment Adopted By The LIN Broadcasting Corporation Board of Directors 11/22/94 AMENDMENT AND TRANSFER OF PROFIT SHARING PLAN RESOLVED, that the LIN Broadcasting Corporation Profit Sharing Plan (the "Profit Sharing Plan") is hereby amended as follows: 1. Effective January 1, 1989, the first sentence of the definition of "Compensation" in Section 1.1 is amended to read as follows: "The aggregate cash remuneration (exclusive of any payment made under this Plan or any other employee benefit plan) received by an individual from an Employer in a Year for services rendered as an Employee." 2. Effective January 1, 1989, the definition of "Profits" is deleted in its entirely from Section 1.1. 3. Effective January 1, 1989, Section 3.1 is amended to read as follows: "3.1 Subject to the right of the Board to modify, amend or terminate the Plan, the rights of the Employers to modify, suspend or discontinue their respective contributions under the Plan and the provisions of this Article III, each Employer shall contribute to the Plan for each Year such amount as the Board shall determine, or, in the absence of such determination by the Board, as the board of directors of each Employer shall determine for such Employer, to be its Contribution for such Year; provided, however, that the Contribution of any Employer for such Year shall not be greater than the amount which is allowable as a deduction for Federal income tax purposes." 4. Effective January 1, 1989, the second sentence of Section 3.4 is deleted in its entirety. 5. Effective January 1, 1989, the last sentence of Section 10.2 is amended to read as follows: "On the complete discontinuance of Contributions by the Employers or on the total or partial termination of the Plan, the interest of each affected Participant shall be payable as provided under Section 7.1 as of the Valuation Date coinciding with or next following the date of such discontinuance or termination." 6. Effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, the definition of "Company" set for in Section 1.1 is amended to read as follows: "Company: LIN Television Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and any successor thereto." 7. Effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, Section 1.1 is amended by adding the following definition of "LIN Broadcasting Affiliate" immediately after the definition of "Five Percent Shareholder" therein: "LIN Broadcasting Affiliate: Any corporation which is a member of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Section 414(b) of the Code), which includes LIN Broadcasting Corporation; any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is under common control (as defined in Section 414(c) of the Code) with LIN Broadcasting Corporation; any organization (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of an affiliated service group (as defined in Section 414(m) of the Code), which includes LIN Broadcasting Corporation; and any other entity required to beaggregated with LINBroadcasting Corporation pursuant to Regulations under Section 414(o) of the Code." 8. Effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, the definition of "Service" in Section 1.1 is amended by adding the following at the end thereof: "Solely for purposes of determining whether a Participant or former Participant has terminated from Service for purposes of Article VII, Service with LIN Broadcasting Corporation or a LIN Broadcasting Affiliate shall be treated as Service with the Company." RESOLVED FURTHER, that effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, sponsorship of the Profit Sharing Plan shall be transferred to Television (subject to acceptance of such sponsorship by the Board of Directors of Television) and sponsorship of the trust for the Profit Sharing Plan, evidenced by the Security Pacific National Bank Trust Agreement for the LIN Broadcasting Corporation Profit Sharing Plan, shall be transferred to Television (subject to acceptance of such sponsorship by the Board of Directors of Television and the approval of the Trustee of such Trust), in each case on and subject to the terms and provisions of the Employee Benefits Allocation Agreement. RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Retirement Benefit Plans Committee of this Board is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to make such other amendments to the Profit Sharing Plan as it deems necessary or advisable to reflect such change of sponsorship. RESOLVED FURTHER, that effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, the Security Pacific National Bank Trust Agreement for the LIN Broadcasting Corporation Profit Sharing Plan is amended by substituting LIN Television Corporation for LIN Broadcasting Corporation as the "Employer" therein (subject to Television's and the Trustee's consent). RESOLVE FURTHER, that the Administrative Committee is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to make such other amendments to the Security Pacific National Bank Trust Agreement for the LIN Broadcasting Corporation Profit Sharing Plan as it deems necessary or advisable to reflect such change of sponsorship, or as the Trustee may require to effectuate such change, and to make such further amendments to the Profit Sharing Plan as the Trustee may require to effectuate such change. RESOLVED FURTHER, that the officers of this corporation, or any one of them, are hereby authorized, directed and empowered to notify the Trustee of the trust for the Profit Sharing Plan of such change of sponsorship and to take such actions (including, but not limited to, executing such documents), other than the adoption of amendments to such Plan and Trust, as the Trustee may require to effectuate such change. RESOLVED FURTHER, that the officers of this corporation, or any one of them, are hereby authorized, directed and empowered to take such other actions (including, but not limited to, executing such documents) as they, or any one of them, deem necessary or advisable to effectuate the foregoing resolutions EX-10 4 EXHIBIT 10.14(b) AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT AMENDMENT NO. 1, dated as of June 15, 1993, under the Credit Agreement, dated as of August 1, 1990 (the "Credit Agreement"), among LIN CELLULAR NETWORK, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Borrower"), the LENDERS party thereto, MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK ("Morgan"), as administrative agent (together with any successor appointed pursuant to Article VII of the Credit Agreement, the "Administrative Agent") for the Lenders thereunder, CITIBANK, N.A. ("Citibank"), Morgan and THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK ("Toronto-Dominion"), as arrangers (together with any successors appointed pursuant to such Article VII of the Credit Agreement, the "Arrangers") for the Lenders thereunder, Citibank, as collateral agent (together with any successors appointed pursuant to such Article VII of the Credit Agreement, the "Collateral Agent") and Toronto-Dominion, as documentation agent (the "Documentation Agent") for the Lenders thereunder. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in the Credit Agreement. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT: The Borrower has requested that the Lenders and the Agents amend certain provisions of the Credit Agreement as hereinafter set forth and the Lenders have indicated their willingness to do so on the terms and conditions stated below. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows: 1. Amendment to Section 1.01. (a) The definition of "Amortization Commencement Date" in Section 1.01 shall be amended to read in full as follows: "Amortization Commencement Date" means, in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, March 31, 1996. (b) The definition of "Applicable Margin" shall be amended by deleting the table set forth in clause (b) thereof in its entirety and replacing it with the following table: LIBO Adjusted Base Rate CD Rate Rate Ratio of CDCE/ACOCF Advances Advances Advances 10.0 to 1 or greater 2-1/2% 2-5/8% 1-1/2% 7.0 to 1 to 10.0 to 1 1-7/8 2 7/8 6.5 to 1 to 7.0 to 1 1-3/4 1-7/8 3/4 6.0 to 1 to 6.5 to 1 1-5/8 1-3/4 5/8 5.5 to 1 to 6.0 to 1 1-1/2 1-5/8 1/2 4.5 to 1 to 5.5 to 1 1-1/4 1-3/8 1/4 4.0 to 1 to 4.5 to 1 1-1/8 1-1/4 1/8 less than 4.0 to 1 1 1-1/8 -- 2. Amendment to Section 2.04(b). Section 2.04(b) shall be amended by deleting the second sentence set forth in clause (i) thereof in its entirety and replacing it with the following sentences: In addition, on the last day of each calendar quarter (each such date, together with the last day of each calendar quarter referred to in the next following sentence, being an "Amortization Date") in the periods set forth below, the Term Commitment of each Lender shall automatically and permanently reduce by the amount obtained by multiplying the percentage set forth opposite the applicable period set forth below (as such percentage may be reduced pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.04(b) or Section 2.07(a)(ii)) by the aggregate principal amount of the Term Advances owing to such Lender as of September 30, 1993: Measurement Period Percentage 9/30/93 through 6/30/94 1.250% 9/30/94 through 6/30/95 2.500 9/30/95 through 6/30/96 3.125 9/30/96 through 6/30/97 3.750 9/30/97 through 6/30/98 4.375 9/30/98 through 6/30/00 5.000 On the last day of each calendar quarter in the periods set forth below, the Revolving Credit Commitment of each Lender shall automatically and permanently reduce by the amount obtained by multiplying the percentage set forth opposite the applicable period set forth below (as such percentage may be reduced pursuant to clause (iv) of this Section 2.04(b) or Section 2.07(a)(ii)) by the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances owing to such Lender on the Amortization Commencement Date: Measurement Period Percentage 3/31/96 through 12/31/96 2.500% 3/31/97 through 12/31/97 3.750 3/31/98 through 12/31/98 5.000 3/31/99 through 12/31/99 6.250 3/31/00 through 6/30/00 15.000 3. Amendments to Section 5.03(b). Section 5.03(b) shall be amended by deleting the table set forth in such Section in its entirety and replacing it with the following table: Measurement Period CD/COCF SD/COCF 06/1/93 thru 05/31/94 6.50 6.00 06/1/94 thru 11/30/94 6.00 5.50 12/1/94 thru 5/31/95 6.00 5.25 06/1/95 thru 11/30/95 6.00 5.00 12/1/95 thru 5/31/96 5.50 4.50 06/1/96 and thereafter 5.00 4.00 4. Amendment Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each of the Term Lenders that execute this Amendment, in consideration for such execution, an amendment fee, payable upon the Effective Date (as defined below), in an amount equal to 1/4 of 1% of the sum of the Term Advances of such Lenders as of the Effective Date, such amount to be paid by the Administrative Agent promptly to such Term Lenders ratably in accordance with their Term Commitments. (b) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Revolving Credit Lenders, in consideration for the execution by such Lenders of this Amendment, an amendment fee, payable upon the Effective Date, in an amount equal to 3/8 of 1% of the sum of the Revolving Credit Advances and the aggregate unused portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments as of the Effective Date, such amount to be paid by the Administrative Agent promptly to the Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their Revolving Credit Commitments. (c) The Borrower shall pay to the Agents for their own accounts such fees as may be agreed upon between the Borrower and the Agents. 5. Conditions of Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective when, and only when, the Administrative Agent shall have received (a) two counterparts of this Amendment executed by the Borrower, the Required Lenders and each of the Revolving Credit Lenders or, as to any of the Lenders, advice satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that such Lenders have executed this Amendment and (b) a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower dated the date of the receipt by the Administrative Agent, and otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing (the date on which all of the conditions set forth in this Section 5 have been satisfied being referred to herein as the "Effective Date"). 6. Reference to and Effect on the Loan Documents. (a) Upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, on and after the date hereof each reference in the Credit Agreement to "this Agreement", "hereunder", "hereof", or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the Loan Documents to "the Credit Agreement", "hereunder", "hereof", or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement, subject, as applicable, to the amendments herein. (b) The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of any Lender or any Agent under any of the Loan Documents, except to the extent expressly set forth herein. 7. Ratification. Except to the extent that the provisions of Sections 1.01, 2.04(b) and 5.03(b) are amended hereby, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are and shall continue to be in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions thereof as in effect on the date hereof and are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Security Agreement and all of the Collateral described therein do and shall continue to secure the payment of all obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement. 8. Entire Agreement. The provisions of this Amendment contain the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings relating thereto. 9. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 10. Execution in Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of any executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by the respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written. LIN CELLULAR NETWORK, INC. By __________________________ Name: Title: MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK as Administrative Agent, Arranger and Lender By __________________________ Name: Title: CITIBANK, N.A. as Collateral Agent, Arranger and Lender By __________________________ Name: Title: THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK as Documentation Agent, Arranger and Lender By __________________________ Name: Title: ATHENA LOAN INVESTORS, L.P. By __________________________ Name: Title: BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION By __________________________ Name: Title: BANK OF HAWAII By __________________________ Name: Title: BANK OF IRELAND By __________________________ Name: Title: BANK OF MONTREAL, CHICAGO BRANCH By __________________________ Name: Title: THE BANK OF NEW YORK By __________________________ Name: Title: THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA By __________________________ Name: Title: BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS By __________________________ Name: Title: By __________________________ Name: Title: BARCLAYS BANK PLC By __________________________ Name: Title: CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE By __________________________ Name: Title: THE CHUO TRUST & BANKING CO., LTD. LOS ANGELES AGENCY By __________________________ Name: Title: CREDIT LYONNAIS CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH By __________________________ Name: Title: THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LIMITED By __________________________ Name: Title: DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK AND/OR CAYMAN ISLAND BRANCHES By __________________________ Name: Title: By __________________________ Name: Title: DIAMOND LEASE (U.S.A.), INC. By __________________________ Name: Title: EATON VANCE PRIME RATE RESERVES By __________________________ Name: Title: FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON By __________________________ Name: Title: FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND By __________________________ Name: Title: THE FUJI BANK, LIMITED LOS ANGELES AGENCY By __________________________ Name: Title: FUYO GENERAL LEASE (USA), INC. By __________________________ Name: Title: THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN, LIMITED By __________________________ Name: Title: J.P. MORGAN DELAWARE By __________________________ Name: Title: KANSALLIS-OSAKE-PANKKI By __________________________ Name: Title: By __________________________ Name: Title: KLEINWORT BENSON LIMITED By __________________________ Name: Title: LIL U.S.A. CO., LTD. By __________________________ Name: Title: THE LONG-TERM CREDIT BANK OF JAPAN, LTD. LOS ANGELES AGENCY By __________________________ Name: Title: LUMBERMENS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY By __________________________ Name: Title: By __________________________ Name: Title: MERIDIAN BANK By __________________________ Name: Title: MERRILL LYNCH PRIME FUND, INC. By __________________________ Name: Title: MERRILL LYNCH PRIME RATE PORTFOLIO By __________________________ Name: Title: THE MITSUI TRUST & BANKING CO., LTD. LOS ANGELES AGENCY By __________________________ Name: Title: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER USA By __________________________ Name: Title: NATIONSBANK OF TEXAS By __________________________ Name: Title: THE NIPPON CREDIT BANK, LTD. NEW YORK BRANCH By __________________________ Name: Title: ORIX USA CORPORATION By __________________________ Name: Title: PILGRIM PRIME RATE TRUST By __________________________ Name: Title: PNC BANK, N.A. By __________________________ Name: Title: THE SAKURA BANK, LIMITED LOS ANGELES AGENCY By __________________________ Name: Title: SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK By __________________________ Name: Title: SHAWMUT BANK CONNECTICUT, N.A. By __________________________ Name: Title: THE SUMITOMO BANK, LIMITED CHICAGO BRANCH By __________________________ Name: Title: THE TORONTO DOMINION BANK, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH By __________________________ Name: Title: VAN KAMPEN MERRITT PRIME RATE FUND By __________________________ Name: Title: EX-10 5 EXHIBIT 10.14(c) CONFORMED COPY AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT AMENDMENT NO. 2 (this "Amendment"), dated as of May 31, 1994, under the Credit Agreement, dated as of August 1, 1990 as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of June 15, 1993 (as so amended, the "Credit Agreement"), among LIN CELLULAR NETWORK, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Borrower"), the LENDERS party thereto, MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK ("Morgan"), as administrative agent (together with any successor appointed pursuant to Article VII of the Credit Agreement, the "Administrative Agent") for the Lenders thereunder, CITIBANK, N.A. ("Citibank"), Morgan and THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK ("Toronto-Dominion"), as arrangers (together with any successors appointed pursuant to such Article VII of the Credit Agreement, the "Arrangers") for the Lenders thereunder, Citibank, as collateral agent (together with any successor appointed pursuant to such Article VII of the Credit Agreement, the "Collateral Agent") and Toronto-Dominion, as documentation agent (the "Documentation Agent") for the Lenders thereunder. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in the Credit Agreement. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT: The Borrower has requested that the Lenders and the Agents amend certain provisions of the Credit Agreement as hereinafter set forth and the Lenders have indicated their willingness to do so on the terms and conditions stated below. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows: 1. Amendments to the Credit Agreement. (a) Amendments to Section 1.01. The following definitions shall be added to Section 1.01 in the appropriate alphabetical order: "AT&T" means AT&T Corporation, a New York corporation. "AT&T Merger Agreement" means the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated August 16, 1993 among AT&T, Ridge and McCaw, as in effect on May 31, 1994 as the same may be amended to the extent that any such amendment is not adverse to the rights and remedies of the Agents or any Lender under the Loan Documents or the ability of any Loan Party to perform its obligations under any Loan Document. "Economic Ownership" means for purposes of determining the percentage of Voting Stock legally and beneficially owned by AT&T (a) all Voting Stock of which AT&T is the sole legal and beneficial owner and (b) a portion of the Voting Stock legally and beneficially owned by a Majority Entity equal to the percentage ownership interest that AT&T holds directly or indirectly in such Majority Entity. Notwithstanding any other provision set forth herein, Voting Stock legally or beneficially owned by an entity that is not a Majority Entity (other than AT&T) shall not be included in the determination of Economic Ownership. "Majority Entity" means, with respect to AT&T, any Person of which AT&T legally and beneficially owns more than 50% of the combined voting power of all of such Person's Voting Stock. "Merger" means the merger of Ridge with and into McCaw with McCaw as the surviving corporation in accordance with the terms set forth in the AT&T Merger Agreement. "1994 Credit Agreement" means the $200,000,000 Senior Unsecured Credit Agreement to be entered into as of June 15, 1994 among the Borrower, the Lenders party thereto, Toronto Dominion and The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Managing Agents, and Toronto Dominion as Administrative Agent,substantially on the terms set forth on Exhibit A hereto, as the same may be amended to the extent that any such amendment is not adverse to the rights and remedies of the Agents or any Lender under the Loan Documents or the ability of any Loan Party to perform its obligations under any Loan Document. "Ridge" means Ridge Merger Corporation, a Delaware corporation wholly owned by AT&T. "Supermajority Lenders" means, at any time, Lenders owed or holding in the aggregate at least 66-2/3% of the sum of (a) the then aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances plus (b) the then aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments. (b) Amendment to Section 5.02(b)(i). Section 5.02(b)(i) shall be amended by deleting the "and" at the end of clause (B), deleting the word "or" at the end of clause (C) and inserting in lieu thereof at the end of clause (C) the word "and" and a new clause (D) to read as follows: "(D) Indebtedness under the 1994 Credit Agreement in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $200,000,000 at any time outstanding; or" (c) Amendment to Section 5.02(k). Section 5.02(k) shall be amended by deleting the word "and" before clause (B) and by adding (i) a "," before such clause (B) and (ii) new clause (C) at the end of such clause (B) to read as follows: "and (C) optional prepayments of the 1994 Credit Agreement in accordance with Section 2.07(a) thereof." (d) Amendment to Section 5.02(m). Section 5.02(m) shall be amended by deleting the "and" before subsection (v) thereof, and by adding at the end of subsection (v) (i) (a) "," and (ii) a new subsection (vi) to read as follows "(vi) as set forth in Section 5.02(a) of the 1994 Credit Agreement". (e) Amendment to Section 5.03. Section 5.03 shall be amended by adding (i) after the words "Required Lenders" in the third line thereof the words "(or , with respect to the requirements set forth in clause (c) below, the Supermajority Lenders)" and (ii) at the end thereof a new subsection (c) to read as follows: "(c) Consolidated Debt. Not permit, at any time, Consolidated Debt to exceed $2,000,000,000." (f) Additional Amendment to Section 5.03. Section 5.03(b) shall be amended by adding at the end thereof the following proviso: "; provided that for purposes of calculating the ratio of Senior Debt to Consolidated Operating Cash Flow, Senior Debt shall not include Indebtedness in an aggregate amount not to exceed $200,000,000 at any time outstanding under the 1994 Credit Agreement." (g) Amendment to Section 6.01(i). Section 6.01(i) shall be amended in its entirety to read as follows: "(i) At any time before the consummation of the Merger, Craig O. McCaw or a Designated Party, and at any time after the consummation of the Merger, AT&T shall fail to have the right to cause the election of his or its nominees to a majority of the directorships of the Board of Directors of McCaw; or". (h) Amendment to Section 6.01(j). Section 6.01(j) shall be amended by (i) deleting the word "The" and inserting the words "(i) At any time before the consummation of the Merger, the" in lieu thereof and (ii) adding immediately prior to the ";" at the end thereof the following: "or (ii) at any time after the consummation of the Merger, AT&T shall for any reason cease to have Economic Ownership of Voting Stock representing in the aggregate at least 51% of the combined voting power of all Voting Stock of McCaw". (i) Amendment to Section 6.01(k). Section 6.01(k) shall be amended by (i) inserting the words "(i) At any time before the consummation of the Merger," before the word "McCaw" at the beginning thereof and (ii) adding immediately prior to the ";" at the end thereof the following: "or (ii) at any time after the consummation of the Merger, McCaw or AT&T shall fail to have the right to cause the election of its nominees to a majority of the directorships of the Board of Directors of LIN." (j) Amendment to Schedule VIII. Schedule VIII of the Credit agreement shall be amended in its entirety to read as Exhibit B hereto. 2. Conditions of Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective when, and only when, the Administrative Agent shall have received (a) two counterparts of this Amendment executed by the Borrower, the Required Lenders or, as to any of the Lenders, advice satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that such Lenders have executed this Amendment, (b) a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower dated the date of the receipt by the Administrative Agent, and otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing and (c) two counterparts of the Consent of Guarantors in the form annexed hereto executed by each of the Guarantors (the date on which all of the conditions set forth in this Section 2 have been satisfied being referred to herein as the "Effective Date"). 3. Reference to and Effect on the Loan Documents. (a) Upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, on and after the date hereof each reference in the Credit Agreement to "this Agreement", "hereunder", "hereof", or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the Loan Documents to "the Credit Agreement", "hereunder", "hereof", or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement, subject, as applicable, to the amendments herein. (b) The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of any Lender or any Agent under any of the Loan Documents, except to the extent expressly set forth herein. 4. Ratification. Except as specifically amended above, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are and shall continue to be in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions thereof as in effect on the date hereof and are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Security Agreement and all of the Collateral described therein do and shall continue to secure the payment of all obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement. 5. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 6. Execution in Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of any executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by the respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written. LIN CELLULAR NETWORK, INC. By /s/ Donald Guthrie Senior Vice President - Finance MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK as Administrative Agent, Arranger and Lender By /s/ Stephen J. Kenneally Vice President CITIBANK, N.A. as Collateral Agent, Arranger and Lender By /s/ Eric Huttner Attorney-in-Fact THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK as Documentation Agent, Arranger and Lender By /s/ Steven Shindler Managing Director ABN AMRO BANK N.V. By /s/ Lee-Lee Miao Vice President By /s/ Jan-Kees Monster Assistant Vice President ATHENA LOAN INVESTORS, L.P. By Name: Title: BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION By /s/ James C. Colegate Senior Vice President BANK OF HAWAII By /s/ J. Bryan Scearce Assistant Vice President BANK OF IRELAND By /s/ Gary A. Ladolcetta Vice President BANK OF MONTREAL, CHICAGO BRANCH By /s/ Yvonne Bos Managing Director THE BANK OF NEW YORK By /s/ Brendan T. Nedzi Vice President THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA By /s/ Mark Vigil BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS By /s/ Deborah Gohh Vice President By /s/Jennifer Cho Vice President BARCLAYS BANK PLC By /s/ Andrew Wynn Director CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE By /s/ Leslie L. Rogers Vice President THE CHUO TRUST & BANKING CO., LTD., LOS ANGELES AGENCY By /s/ Y. Takata Senior Manager CREDIT LYONNAIS CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH By /s/ Bruce M. Yeager Authorized Signature THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LIMITED By /s/ Seiji Imai Assistant Vice President DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK AND/OR CAYMAN ISLAND BRANCHES By /s/ John R. Lilly Vice President By /s/Alain M. Bolea Director DIAMOND LEASE (U.S.A.), INC. By Name: Title: FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON By /s/ John S. Rudberg Division Executive FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND By /s/ Mark L. Cook Vice President THE FUJI BANK, LIMITED LOS ANGELES AGENCY By /s/ Yasuji Ikawa Joint General Manager FUYO GENERAL LEASE (USA), INC. By /s/ Atsushi Ishii Executive Vice President THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN, LIMITED By /s/ Junri Oda Senior Vice President and Senior Manager J.P. MORGAN DELAWARE By /s/ David J. Morri Vice President KANSALLIS-OSAKE-PANKKI By /s/ William S. Bennett Vice President By /s/ Mark S. Gronich Assistant Vice President KLEINWORT BENSON LIMITED By Name: Title: LIL U.S.A. CO., LTD. By Name: Title: THE LONG-TERM CREDIT BANK OF JAPAN, LTD. LOS ANGELES AGENCY By /s/ Yutaka Kamisawa Deputy General Manager LTCB LEASING (U.K.) LIMITED By Name: Title: LUMBERMENS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY By Name: Title: By Name: Title: MERIDIAN BANK By Name: Title: THE MITSUI TRUST & BANKING CO., LTD. LOS ANGELES AGENCY By /s/ Hiroshi Uenishi Deputy General Manager NATIONAL CITY BANK By /s/ Christopher M. Karr Assistant Vice President NATIONAL WESTMINSTER USA By /s/ Alex Sade Vice President NATIONSBANK OF TEXAS By Name: Title: THE NIPPON CREDIT BANK, LTD. NEW YORK BRANCH By /s/ Peter F.Griffith Vice President ORIX USA CORPORATION By Name: Title: PNC BANK, N.A. By /s/ Steven R. Bitner Assistant Vice President THE SAKURA BANK, LIMITED LOS ANGELES AGENCY By /s/ Ofusa Sato Senior Vice President and Assistant General Manager SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK By Name: Title: SHAWMUT BANK CONNECTICUT, N.A. By Name: Title: THE SUMITOMO BANK, LIMITED CHICAGO BRANCH By Name: Title: THE TORONTO DOMINION BANK, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH By Name: Title: U.S. BANK OF WASHINGTON By Name: Title: U.S. NATIONAL BANK OF OREGON By Name: Title: VAN KAMPEN MERRITT PRIME RATE INCOME TRUST By /s/ Jeffrey W. Maillet Vice President and Portfolio Manager CONSENT OF GUARANTORS Dated as of May 31, 1994 Each of the undersigned hereby consents to the foregoing Amendment No. 2 to the Credit Agreement and hereby confirms and agrees that (i) all obligations of the undersigned under each Loan Document to which it is party are, and shall continue to be, in full force and effect and each such Loan Document is hereby ratified and confirmed and (ii) the Security Agreement to which it is a party and all of the Collateral described therein do, and shall continue to, secure the payment of all of the Secured Obligations (as defined therein). LCN HOLDINGS, INC. By: /s/ Donald Guthrie Vice President - Finance LIN CELLULAR HOLDINGS, INC. By: /s/ Donald Guthrie Vice President - Finance Exhibit B Schedule VIII Limitations on Dividends and Distributions(19) Company(20) Agreement Containing Limitation LIN Cellular Communications Corporation (Texas) Partnership Agreement, dated as of December 12, 1984, among American Mobile Communications of Houston & the Gulf, Houston Cellular Corporation, LIN Cellular Communications Corporation, MCI Cellular Telephone Co., Charisma Communications Corp. of the Southwest and Cellular Mobile Systems of Texas Inc. (as amended through the date hereof, the "HMCC Partnership Agreement"). Houston Mobile Cellular Communications Company, a Texas partnership HMCC Partnership Agreement. LIN Long Distance (Texas), Inc. Partnership Agreement, dated September 5, 1989, between LIN Long Distance Texas, Inc. and Cellular Mobile Systems of Texas, Inc. (the "Metrocel Long Distance Agreement"). Metrocel Long Distance Company Metrocel Long Distance Agreement. LIN Cellular Network, Inc. Credit Agreement to be entered into as of June 15, 1994 among LIN Cellular Network, Inc.,the Lenders party thereto, The Toronto-Dominion Bank ("Toronto Dominion") and the Bank of Nova Scotia, as Managing Agents for the Lenders, and Toronto-Dominion, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders. (19) Referred to in Section 4.01(x); limitations scheduled are subsequent to the Restructuring. (20) Unless otherwise indicated herein, all entities are corporations. Cellular Systems Partnership Agreement, dated February 25, 1985, between LIN Cellular Communications Corporation (Texas) and Houston Cellular Corporation (as successors to the original partners) (the "Cellular Systems Partnership Agreement"). The Existing Partnership Agreements also contain limitations on dividends and distributions that affect the Principal Cellular Partnerships and the Borrower's Subsidiaries that are parties thereto. See also agreements pertaining to Indebtedness listed on Schedule IX. Vendor and bank financing agreements (to the extent permitted from time to time under the Credit Agreement) generally allow dividends or distributions consisting of a portion of cash flow available for distributions (as determined under such agreements) if specified levels of cash flow are achieved. The entities listed or referred to above are subject to such regulations of the FCC and state public services commissions as may be generally applicable in the cellular industry. EX-10 6 EXHIBIT 10.18(b) Amendment Adopted by the LIN Broadcasting Corporation Board of Directors 11/2/94 APPROVAL OF AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN RESOLVED, that Section 1(i) of this corporation's Employee Stock Purchase Plan is hereby amended by adding the following language at the end thereof to give the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors the discretion to waive the six-month employment requirement for eligibility under the Plan for employees of acquired companies: "; provided, however, that in the sole discretion of the Committee, any person who, immediately prior to becoming an Employee, has completed six months of employment with an employer that becomes a Subsidiary or is otherwise acquired by the Company shall be an Eligible Employee beginning on the date he or she first becomes an Employee, provided such person otherwise meets the requirements of (1) through (4) of this Section 1(i)." EX-10 7 EXHIBIT 10.21(c) Amendments Adopted By The LIN Broadcasting Corporation Board of Directors 11/22/94 AMENDMENT AND TRANSFER OF RETIREMENT PLAN RESOLVED, that the LIN Broadcasting Corporation Retirement Plan (the "Retirement Plan") is hereby amended as follows: 1. Effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, the definition of "Company" set forth in Section 1.1 is amended to read as follows: "Company: LIN Television Corporation, a Delaware corporation, or any successor to it in ownership of all or substantially all of its assets." 2. Effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, the definition of "Hour of Service" in Section 1.1 is amended by adding the following at the end thereof: "Solely for purposes of determining a Participant's Years of Vesting Service and whether a Participant is eligible for early retirement benefits under the Plan, Service with GuestInformant after June 27, 1994 shall be treated as Service with the Company. Solely for purposes of determining a Participant's Years of Vesting Service, whether a Participant has terminated from Service for purposes of Article VI and whether a Participant is eligible for early retirement benefits under the Plan, Service with LIN Broadcasting Corporation or a LIN Broadcasting Affiliate shall be treated as Service with the Company." 3. Effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, Section 1.1 is amended by adding the following definition of "LIN Broadcasting Affiliate" immediately after the definition of "KXAS Plan": "LIN Broadcasting Affiliate: Any corporation which is a member of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Section 414(b) of the Code), which includes LIN Broadcasting Corporation; any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is under common control (as defined in Section 414(c) of the Code) with the LIN Broadcasting Corporation; any organization (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of an affiliated service group (as defined in Section 414(m) of the Code), which includes LIN Broadcasting Corporation; and any other entity required to be aggregated with LIN Broadcasting Corporation pursuant to Regulations under Section 414(o) of the Code." 4. Effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, the definition of "Service" in Section 1.1 is amended by adding the following at the end thereof: "Solely for purposes of determining a Participant's Years of Vesting Service, whether a Participant has terminated from Service for purposes of Article VI and whether a Participant is eligible for early retirement benefits under the Plan, Service with LIN Broadcasting corporation or a LIN Broadcasting Affiliate shall be treated as Service with the Company." 5. Effective December __, 1994, the first sentence of Section 11.1 is amended by deleting the proviso, so that the first sentence reads as follows: "Except as hereinafter provided, the Company (for itself and the other Employers) may at any time amend the Plan, retroactively or otherwise, in any manner that it deems expedient or proper." 6. Effective December __, 1994, Article XIV is amended by renumbering Sections 14.1 through 14.5 as Section 14.2 through 14.6, respectively, and by inserting the following new Section 14.1: "14.1 Effective Date This Article shall apply only to Changes in Control which occur prior to December __, 1994. No PAY/COLA Increase (or any other increase in an Employee's Accrued Benefit) shall be made under this Article with respect to a Change in Control that occurs on or after December __, 1994." RESOLVED FURTHER, that effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, LCH Communications, Inc. shall cease to be a participating employer in the Retirement Plan and employees of LCH Communications, Inc. shall cease to accrue additional benefits under such Plan on and after such date. RESOLVED FURTHER, that effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, sponsorship of the Retirement Plan shall be transferred to Television (subject to acceptance of such sponsorship by the Board of Directors of Television) and sponsorship of the trust for the Retirement Plan, evidenced by the Security Pacific National Bank Trust Agreement for the Retirement Plan, shall be transferred to Television (subject to acceptance of such sponsorship by the Board of Directors of Television and the approval of the Trustee of such Trust), in each case on and subject to the terms and provisions of the Employee Benefits Allocation Agreement. RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Retirement Benefit Plans Committee of this Board is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to make such other amendments to the Retirement Plan as it deems necessary or advisable to reflect such change of sponsorship. RESOLVED FURTHER, that effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, Security Pacific National Bank trust Agreement for the LIN Broadcasting Corporation Retirement Plan is amended by substituting LIN Television Corporation for LIN Broadcasting Corporation as the "Employer" therein (subject to Television's and the Trustee's approval). RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Administrative Committee is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to make such other amendments to the Security Pacific Bank Agreement for the LIN Broadcasting Corporation Retirement Plan as it deems necessary or advisable to reflect such change of sponsorship, or as the Trustee may require to effectuate such change, and to make such further amendments to the Retirement Plan as the Trustee may require to effectuate such change. RESOLVED FURTHER, that the officers of this corporation, or any one of them, are hereby authorized, directed and empowered to notify the Trustee of the trust for the Retirement Plan of such change of sponsorship and to take such actions (including, but not limited to, executing such documents), other than the adoption of amendments to such Plan and Trust, as the Trustee may require to effectuate such change. RESOLVED FURTHER, that the officers of this corporation, or any one of them, are hereby authorized, directed and empowered to take such other actions (including, but not limited to, executing such documents) as they, or any one of them, deem necessary or advisable to effectuate the foregoing resolutions. EX-10 8 EXHIBIT 10.22(b) Amendment Adopted By The LIN Broadcasting Corporation Board Of Directors 11/22/94 AMENDMENT AND TRANSFER OF SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFIT RETIREMENT PLAN RESOLVED, that effective January 1, 1994, the "Purpose" section of the Supplemental Benefit Retirement Plan for LIN Broadcasting Corporation and Subsidiary Companies ("SERB") is amended as follows: 1. The following new sentence is added after the second sentence thereof: Effective January 1, 1994, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 ("OBRA") reduced the maximum amount of annual compensation that may be taken into account under the Retirement Plan for any year to $150,000, as adjusted pursuant to Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Code. 2. The third sentence thereof (determined prior to adding the sentence set forth in 1 above) is amended to read as follows: LIN Broadcasting Corporation ("LIN") has amended the Retirement Plan to conform to the benefit and compensation limitations of the Code, the Act, TEFRA, TRA-86 and OBRA, and such amendments (the "Limitations Amendments") will reduce the benefits that certain employees and former employees (and their beneficiaries) of LIN and any other Employer (as such term is defined in the Retirement Plan) would otherwise be entitled to receive under the Retirement Plan. RESOLVED FURTHER, that effective upon and subject to the consummation of the Distribution, sponsorship of the SERB shall be transferred to Television (subject to acceptance of such sponsorship by the Board of Directors of Television), on and subject to the terms and provisions of the Employee Benefits Allocation Agreement. RESOLVED FURTHER, that the officers of this corporation, or any one of them, are hereby authorized, directed and empowered to take such actions (including, but not limited to, executing such documents) as they, or any one of them, deem necessary or advisable to effectuate the foregoing resolutions. EX-10 9 EXHIBIT 10.32 EXECUTION COPY $200,000,000 CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of June 15, 1994 Among LIN CELLULAR NETWORK, INC., as Borrower, THE LENDERS NAMED HEREIN, as Lenders, TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS), INC., as Administrative Agent, and THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA and THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, as Managing Agents T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S Section Page ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS 1.01. Certain Defined Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.02. Computation of Time Periods. . . . . . . . . . . . 30 1.03. Accounting Terms and Computations. . . . . . . . . 30 ARTICLE II AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES 2.01. The Advances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2.02. Making the Advances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.03. Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 2.04. Reduction of the Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.05. Repayment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.06. Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.07. Prepayments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 2.08. Conversion of Advances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.09. Interest Rate Determination. . . . . . . . . . . . 37 2.10. Increased Costs, Etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 2.11. Payments and Computations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 2.12. Taxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 2.13. Sharing of Payments, Etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 2.14. Use of Proceeds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 2.15. Evidence of Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 ARTICLE III CONDITIONS OF LENDING 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Initial Borrowing. . . . . 43 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing . . . . . . 46 3.03. Conditions Precedent to Certain Borrowings . . . . 47 3.04. Determinations Under Sections 3.01, 3.02 and 3.03. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 4.01. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower . . 48 (a) Organization of the Loan Parties. . . . . . . . 48 (b) Organization of the Borrower's Subsidiaries, the Principal Cellular Partnerships and Minority Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 (c) Compliance with Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 (d) Approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 (e) Legal Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 (f) Financial Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 (g) Pro Forma Financial Information . . . . . . . . 50 (h) Disclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 (i) Material Litigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 (j) ERISA Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 (k) No Reportable Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 (l) Plan Funding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 (m) Post Retirement Benefit Obligations . . . . . . 52 (n) No Catastrophic Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 (o) Compliance with Environmental Law . . . . . . . 52 (p) No Burdensome Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . 52 (q) Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 (r) Investment Company Act of 1940. . . . . . . . . 52 (s) Solvency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 (t) Condition of System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 (u) Fees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 (v) Public Utility Holding Company Act. . . . . . . 53 (w) Capital Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 (x) No Limitations on Dividends and Distributions . 54 (y) Licenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 (z) Regulation of the Lenders . . . . . . . . . . . 54 (aa) Existing Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 (bb) Material Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 (cc) Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 (dd) Title to Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 (ee) Deposit Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 ARTICLE V COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER 5.01. Affirmative Covenants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 (a) Compliance with Laws, Etc.. . . . . . . . . . . 56 (b) Payment of Taxes, Etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 (c) Maintenance of Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . 56 (d) Preservation of Corporate and Partnership Existence, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 (e) Visitation Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 (f) Keeping of Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 (g) Maintenance of Properties, Etc. . . . . . . . . 57 (h) Performance of Material Agreements. . . . . . . 58 (i) Transactions with Affiliates. . . . . . . . . . 58 (j) Reporting Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 (k) Maintenance of Corporate Separateness . . . . . 63 5.02. Negative Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 (a) Liens, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 (b) Indebtedness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 (c) Mergers, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 (d) Sales, Etc. of Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 (e) Investments in Other Persons. . . . . . . . . . 68 (f) Dividends, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 (g) Change in Nature of Business. . . . . . . . . . 70 (h) Compliance with ERISA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 (i) Plan Amendments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 (j) Accounting Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 (k) Prepayments, Amendments, Etc. of Debt . . . . . 71 (l) Amendments, Etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 (m) Negative Pledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 (n) Preferred Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 (o) Service Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 (p) Holding Company Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 (q) Minority Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 (r) Deposit Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5.03. Financial Covenants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 (a) Consolidated Operating Cash Flow to Consolidated Debt Service Ratio . . . . . . . . 73 (b) Consolidated Debt to Consolidated Operating Cash Flow Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 (c) Consolidated Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 ARTICLE VI EVENTS OF DEFAULT 6.01. Events of Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 ARTICLE VII THE AGENTS 7.01. Authorization and Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 7.02. Agents' Reliance, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 7.03. TD (Texas), Toronto-Dominion and Scotiabank and Affiliates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 7.04. Lender Credit Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 7.05. Indemnification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 7.06. Successor Administrative Agent; Successor Managing Agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS 8.01. Amendments, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 8.02. Notices, Etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 8.03. No Waiver; Remedies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8.04. Costs; Expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8.05. Right of Set-off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 8.06. Binding Effect; Survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 8.07. Assignments and Participations . . . . . . . . . . 87 8.08. Governing Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 8.09. Execution in Counterparts. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 8.10. Confidentiality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 8.11. Waiver of Jury Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 SCHEDULES Schedule I - Commitments and Applicable Lending Offices Schedule II - Existing Indebtedness Schedule III - Terms of Subordination Schedule IV - Disclosed Litigation Schedule V - Subsidiaries, Principal Cellular Partnerships and Minority Entities Schedule VI - Approvals Schedule VII - ERISA Plans Schedule VIII - Limitation on Dividends and Distributions Schedule IX - Material Agreements Schedule X - Existing Liens and Rights of First Refusal EXHIBITS Exhibit A - Form of Assignment and Acceptance Exhibit B - Form of Compliance Certificate Exhibit C - Form of Notice of Borrowing Exhibit D - Form of Amendment Exhibit E - Form of Solvency Certificate Exhibit F - Form of Opinion of Vice President-Law of the Borrower Exhibit G - Form of Opinion of FCC counsel to the Borrower Exhibit H - Form of Opinion of PUC counsel to the Borrower Exhibit I - Form of Opinion of special counsel to the Managing Agents CREDIT AGREEMENT CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of June 15, 1994 among LIN CELLULAR NETWORK, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Borrower"), the banks and financial institutions (together with their assigns, the "Lenders") listed on the signature pages hereof, TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS), INC. ("TD (Texas)"), as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder (together with any successor appointed pursuant to Article VII, the "Administrative Agent"), THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA ("Scotiabank") and THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK ("Toronto-Dominion"), as managing agents for the Lenders hereunder (together with any successors appointed pursuant to Article VII, the "Managing Agents"). Capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in Article I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS (1) The Borrower has requested that the Lenders make Advances to the Borrower in an aggregate amount up to $200,000,000 to finance the acquisition of certain cellular properties and for general corporate purposes. (2) The Lenders are willing, upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, to make Advances under the Term Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility to the Borrower for the purposes described herein. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows: ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS SECTION 1.01. Certain Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined): "Acquisitions" has the meaning specified in Section 2.14. "Additional Working Capital Debt" has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(q). "Adjusted CD Rate" means, for the Interest Period for each Adjusted CD Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing, an interest rate per annum equal to the sum of: (a) the rate per annum obtained by dividing (i) the rate of interest determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average (rounded upward to the nearest whole multiple of 1/100 of 1% per annum, if such average is not such a multiple) of the consensus bid rate determined by each of the Reference Lenders for the bid rates per annum, at 9:00 A.M. (New York City time) (or as soon thereafter as practicable) on the first day of such Interest Period, of New York certificate of deposit dealers of recognized standing selected by such Reference Lender for the purchase at face value of certificates of deposit of such Reference Lender in an amount substantially equal to such Reference Lender's Adjusted CD Rate Advance comprising part of such Borrowing and with a maturity equal to such Interest Period, by (ii) a percentage equal to 100% minus the Adjusted CD Rate Reserve Percentage (as defined below) for such Interest Period, plus (b) the Assessment Rate (as defined below) for such Interest Period. "Adjusted CD Rate Advance" means an Advance that bears interest as provided in Section 2.06(b). "Adjusted CD Rate Reserve Percentage" for the Interest Period for each Adjusted CD Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing means the reserve percentage applicable on the first day of such Interest Period under regulations issued from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including, but not limited to, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in New York City with deposits exceeding one billion Dollars with respect to liabilities consisting of or including (among other liabilities) Dollar nonpersonal time deposits in the United States with a maturity equal to such Interest Period. The "Assessment Rate" for the Interest Period for each Adjusted CD Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing means the annual assessment rate estimated by the Administrative Agent on the first day of such Interest Period for determining the then current annual assessment payable by Toronto-Dominion to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (or any successor) for insuring Dollar deposits of Toronto-Dominion in the United States. The Adjusted CD Rate for each Interest Period for each Adjusted CD Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing shall be determined by the Administrative Agent on the basis of applicable rates furnished to and received by the Administrative Agent from the Reference Lenders on the first day of such Interest Period, subject, however, to the provisions of Sections 2.02(b) and 2.09. "Administrative Agent" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. "Administrative Agent's Account" means the account of the Administrative Agent maintained by the Administrative Agent at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or as otherwise designated in a written notice by the Administrative Agent to the Managing Agents, the Lenders and the Borrower from time to time. "Advance" means a Term Advance or a Revolving Credit Advance. "Affiliate" means, as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person or is a spouse of or any other relative (by blood, adoption or marriage) of such Person within the third degree or is a partner, member, director, officer or employee of such Person. For purposes of this definition, the term "control" (including the terms "controlling", "controlled by" and "under common control with") of a Person means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to vote 10% or more of the Voting Stock of such Person or to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of Voting Stock or partnership interests or by contract or otherwise. "Agents" means, collectively, the Administrative Agent and the Managing Agents. "Amendment" means Amendment No. 2 to the 1990 Credit Agreement dated as of May 31, 1994. "Applicable Lending Office" means, for each Lender, such Lender's Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base Rate Advance, such Lender's CD Lending Office in the case of an Adjusted CD Rate Advance and such Lender's LIBO Lending Office in the case of a LIBO Rate Advance. "Applicable Margin" means (a) for the period commencing on the date of the initial Borrowing through, and including, June 30, 1996 (i) for LIBO Rate Advances, 2-1/2%, (ii) for Adjusted CD Rate Advances, 2-5/8% and (iii) for Base Rate Advances, 1-1/2% and (b) at all times thereafter for each Advance, a percentage per annum as set forth below under the applicable LIBO Rate Advances column, Adjusted CD Rate Advances column or Base Rate Advances column during the period set forth below: Period LIBO Rate Adjusted CD Base Rate Advances Rate Advances Advances -------------------------------------------------------- July 1, 1996 through June 30, 1997 3% 3-1/8% 2% July 1, 1997 through June 30, 1998 3-1/2% 3-5/8% 2-1/2% July 1, 1998 and all times thereafter 4% 4-1/8% 3% "Appropriate Lender" means, as to any Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment for a portion of such Facility. "Approved Accountants" means any of Arthur Andersen & Co., Price Waterhouse, KPMG Peat Marwick, Deloitte & Touche, Coopers & Lybrand and Ernst & Young (or any of their respective successors). "Approved Cellular Assets" means any Franchise Interest in an MSA that meets the following criteria: (a) the Cellular Entity in which such Franchise Interest is being acquired is (or would become after giving effect to the acquisition of such Franchise Interest) one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and (b) such Franchise Interest is located in one of the ten largest MSAs (measured at the time of acquisition by reference to the then most recent Donnelly Marketing Service population estimates). "Approved Services Agreement" means the Approved Services Agreement dated as of August 1, 1990 between the Borrower and LIN. "Assignment and Acceptance" means an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in accordance with Section 8.07 and in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto. "Attributable Share" means, for purposes of determining the income, Indebtedness, Pops, Operating Cash Flow, Cash Equivalents or other measured characteristic of any Person, the percentage ownership interest in such Person held directly or indirectly by the Borrower. "AT&T" means AT&T Corporation, a New York corporation. "AT&T Merger Agreement" means the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated August 16, 1993 among AT&T, Ridge and McCaw, as in effect on the date hereof, as such agreement may be amended to the extent that any such amendment is not adverse to the rights and remedies of any Agent or any Lender under this Agreement or the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations hereunder. "Base Rate" means a fluctuating interest rate per annum as shall be in effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall at all times be equal to the rate of interest announced publicly by Toronto-Dominion in New York, New York, from time to time, as its base rate; provided that, with respect to any Advance that is made during a Year End Period, such rate per annum for such Advance during such period (regardless of whether the Interest Period for such Advance shall extend beyond such period) shall at all times be equal to the higher of such base rate and a rate equal to 1/2 of 1% per annum above the Federal Funds Rate. "Base Rate Advance" means an Advance that bears interest as provided in Section 2.06(c). "Board of Directors" of any Person means the board of directors of such Person or any duly authorized committee of such board. "Borrower" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. "Borrower Restrictive Agreement" has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(q). "Borrower's Account" means the account of the Borrower at a depository of the Borrower's choosing and otherwise as designated by the Borrower in a written notice to the Administrative Agent. "Borrowing" means a Term Borrowing or a Revolving Credit Borrowing. "Broadcast Borrower" means LIN Television Corporation, a Delaware corporation. "Business Day" means a day of the year on which banks are not required or authorized to close in New York City and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any LIBO Rate Advances, on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank market. "Capital Expenditures" means, for any period, the sum of (without duplication) (a) all expenditures during such period for real property or improvements and equipment utilized in a Cellular Business and other business operations, or for replacements or substitutions therefor or additions thereto, that have a useful life of more than one year plus (b) the entire principal amount of any Indebtedness assumed or incurred in connection with any such expenditures. "Capitalized Leases" has the meaning specified in clause (e) of the definition of Indebtedness. "Cash Equivalents" means any of the following, to the extent owned free and clear of all Liens: (a) Dollars on hand and in insured demand deposit accounts; (b) direct obligations of the Government of the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof or obligations unconditionally guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the United States; (c) certificates of deposit or bankers' acceptances that become payable within one year after the date of issuance and that are issued by (i) any Lender or (ii) any other commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or any other country that is a member of the OECD or any political subdivision of such country and having combined capital and surplus of at least $1,000,000,000; (d) commercial paper issued by any corporation organized under the laws of any state or the United States with a rating of at least "Prime-1" (or the equivalent grade) by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or "A-1" (or the equivalent grade) by Standard & Poor's Corporation; and (e) repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements with any securities dealer with respect to securities of the types specified in clauses (a) through (d) in respect of an aggregate principal amount of securities not in excess of $25,000,000 and that are fully collateralized by any of the securities specified in clauses (a) through (d) above. "CD Lending Office" means, for any Lender, the office of such Lender specified as its "CD Lending Office" opposite its name in Schedule I hereto or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender (or, if no such office is specified, its Domestic Lending Office), or such other office of such Lender as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. "Cellular Assets" means each Cellular System or Franchise Interest owned directly or indirectly by the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership. "Cellular Business" means the business of operating one or more Cellular Systems and other businesses directly related thereto. "Cellular Entity" means a Cellular Licensee, Cellular Permittee or Cellular Tentative Selectee. "Cellular Licensee" means any Person that is authorized by the FCC to own, control and operate a Cellular System in an MSA or RSA. "Cellular Permittee" means a Person that is authorized by the FCC to construct a Cellular System in an MSA or RSA. "Cellular System" means a domestic public cellular radio telecommunications service system licensed under Part 22 of the FCC's Rules. "Cellular Tentative Selectee" means a Person designated in a public notice issued by the FCC to become a Cellular Permittee unless and until such designation shall have been reversed or revoked by the FCC. "Class B Shares" means Class B Common Stock, par value $.01, of McCaw. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and the rulings issued thereunder. "Commitment" means a Term Commitment or a Revolving Credit Commitment. "Compliance Certificate" means a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto to be delivered pursuant to Sections 5.01(j)(iii) and (iv). "Confidential Information" has the meaning specified in Section 8.10. "Consolidated" refers to the consolidation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP. "Consolidated Debt" means, for any date of determination, the sum of (without duplication): (a) the Consolidated Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Borrower's wholly owned Subsidiaries; and (b) the Attributable Share of the Indebtedness of each of the Borrower's other Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership; provided that Indebtedness owing by one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or by a Principal Cellular Partnership to the Borrower or to another of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or to another Principal Cellular Partnership or by the Borrower to any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or to a Principal Cellular Partnership shall not be included in this calculation. "Consolidated Debt Service" means, for any date of determination, the sum (without duplication) of all amounts paid during the current fiscal quarter and all amounts scheduled to be paid during the three consecutive fiscal quarters following such current fiscal quarter with respect to: (a) scheduled reductions of Consolidated Debt (other than the Facilities) during such current fiscal quarter and of such Consolidated Debt outstanding on the date of determination for each such other fiscal quarter; (b) reductions of the Commitments pursuant to Section 2.04(b)(i) of the 1990 Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof; (c) interest on such Consolidated Debt and the Facilities (excluding amortization of debt discount and expense but including imputed interest on capital lease obligations and assuming, in the case of fluctuating interest rates that cannot be determined in advance, that the rate in effect on the date of determination will remain in effect throughout such period); (d) commitment, agency or other fees with respect to such Consolidated Debt and the Facilities (other than, in the case of such other fees, amounts paid to lenders upon the initial incurrence of such Consolidated Debt to induce such lenders to provide such Consolidated Debt); (e) dividends and other distributions (other than dividends payable in additional shares of such Preferred Stock) with respect to Preferred Stock outstanding during such current fiscal quarter and with respect to Preferred Stock outstanding on the date of determination for each such other fiscal quarter, after giving effect to any such Preferred Stock proposed on the date of determination to be created and to the concurrent retirement of any other Preferred Stock on such date; and (f) all interest rate swap agreements outstanding during such current fiscal quarter and all interest rate swap agreements outstanding on the date of determination for each such other fiscal quarter, less amounts, if any, received during the current fiscal quarter under all interest rate swap agreements and amounts scheduled to be received during each such other fiscal quarter under all interest rate swap agreements outstanding on the date of determination, such calculation to assume that, in the case of such agreements outstanding on the date of determination, the reference rate under each such agreement in effect on the date of determination will remain in effect throughout such period; provided that principal and interest in respect of any guarantee for borrowed money shall be deemed to be payable as if (i) the principal amount of such guarantee were subject to the same rate of repayment as the Indebtedness guaranteed and (ii) interest in respect thereof were payable at the same rate as the Indebtedness guaranteed. "Consolidated Operating Cash Flow" means, for any period, the sum of (without duplication): (a) Consolidated Operating Cash Flow of the Borrower and the Borrower's wholly owned Subsidiaries and (b) the Attributable Share of the Operating Cash Flow of each of the Borrower's other Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership. "Conversion", "Convert" and "Converted" each refers to a conversion of Advances of one Type into Advances of the other Type pursuant to Section 2.08 or 2.10. "Dallas Partnership" means Metroplex Telephone Company, a partnership organized pursuant to the Dallas Partnership Agreement. "Dallas Partnership Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Partnership Agreement dated as of November 9, 1984 among LIN Cellular Communications Corporation, D/FW Signal, Inc., MCI Cellular Telephone Co., Cellular Mobile Systems of Texas, Inc. and Mid-America Cellular Systems, Inc. "Default" means any Event of Default or any event that would constitute an Event of Default but for the requirement that notice be given or time elapse or both. "Designated Party" has the meaning specified in the Shareholders Agreement as in effect on February 26, 1990. "Disclosed Litigation" has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(c). "Dollars" and the sign "$" each mean lawful money of the United States of America. "Domestic Lending Office" means, with respect to any Lender, the office of such Lender specified as its "Domestic Lending Office" set forth opposite its name in Schedule I hereto or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender, or such other office of such Lender as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. "Economic Ownership" means, for purposes of determining the percentage of Voting Stock legally and beneficially owned by AT&T, (a) all Voting Stock of which AT&T is the sole legal and beneficial owner and (b) a portion of the Voting Stock legally and beneficially owned by a Majority Entity equal to the percentage ownership interest that AT&T holds directly or indirectly in such Majority Entity. Notwithstanding any other provision set forth herein, Voting Stock legally or beneficially owned by an entity that is not a Majority Entity (other than AT&T) shall not be included in the determination of Economic Ownership. "Eligible Assignee" means (a) a commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States, or any state thereof, and having total assets in excess of $500,000,000 and a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000; (b) a savings and loan association or savings bank organized under the laws of the United States, or any state thereof, and having total assets in excess of $500,000,000 and a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000; (c) a commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country that is a member of the OECD or has concluded special lending arrangements with the International Monetary Fund associated with its General Arrangements to Borrow or of the Cayman Islands, or a political subdivision of any such country, and having total assets in excess of $500,000,000 and a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000; provided that such bank is acting through a branch or agency located in the United States; (d) the central bank of any country that is a member of the OECD; (e) a finance company, insurance company or other financial institution or fund (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity) that is engaged in making, purchasing or otherwise investing in commercial loans in the ordinary course of its business, and having total assets in excess of $250,000,000 and (other than in the case of a fund or trust) a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000; and (f) any Affiliate of any Lender acceptable to the Borrower; provided that such acceptance by the Borrower shall not be unreasonably withheld (and shall be deemed to be given if the Borrower fails to respond to a written request therefor within ten Business Days after its receipt thereof). "Environmental Law" means any law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award relating to the environment, health or safety or to the release of any materials into the environment, including, without limitation, the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Clean Water Act of 1977, as amended, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, the Toxic Substance Control Act, as amended, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended. "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. "ERISA Affiliate" of any Person means any other Person that for purposes of Title IV of ERISA is a member of such Person's controlled group, or under common control with such Person, within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. "ERISA Event" means (a) a reportable event, within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA, unless the 30-day notice requirement with respect thereto has been waived by the PBGC; (b) the provision by the administrator of any Plan of a notice of intent to terminate such Plan, pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA (including any such notice with respect to a plan amendment referred to in Section 4041(e) of ERISA); (c) the cessation of operations at a facility in the circumstances described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (d) the withdrawal by the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate from a Multiple Employer Plan during a plan year for which it was a substantial employer, as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (e) the failure by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate to make a payment to a Plan required under Section 302(f)(1) of ERISA; (f) the adoption of an amendment to a Plan requiring the provision of security to such Plan, pursuant to Section 307 of ERISA; or (g) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan, pursuant to Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or condition that might constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, a Plan. "Eurocurrency Liabilities" has the meaning specified in Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time. "Events of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 6.01. "Excess Cash Flow" means, for any fiscal year, the sum, if positive, of Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for such fiscal year plus the Net Cash Proceeds from extraordinary transactions received by the Borrower or any of the Borrower's wholly owned Subsidiaries and the Attributable Share of the Net Cash Proceeds from extraordinary transactions received by each of the Borrower's other Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership during the relevant fiscal year less (without duplication): (a) scheduled repayments and mandatory prepayments (other than prepayments in respect of 1990 Commitment reductions pursuant to Section 2.04(b)(iii) of the 1990 Credit Agreement) of principal of Consolidated Debt and dividends and other distributions scheduled to be paid with respect to capital stock included in Consolidated Debt (other than dividends payable in additional shares of such capital stock and any amounts applied to enable LCH to pay dividends on the LCH Preferred Stock); (b) voluntary prepayments of principal of the Facilities pursuant to Section 2.07(a) to the extent that such amounts may not be reborrowed pursuant to Section 2.01(a) or (b) and voluntary prepayments of principal under Section 2.07(a) of the 1990 Credit Agreement to the extent that such amounts may not be reborrowed pursuant to the terms thereof; (c) premium charges and Interest Expense on Consolidated Debt; (d) commitment, agency or other fees with respect to Consolidated Debt; (e) Capital Expenditures by the Borrower or any of the Borrower's wholly owned Subsidiaries and the Attributable Share of Capital Expenditures by each of the Borrower's other Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership; and (f) cash expenditures for losses with respect to extraordinary items incurred by the Borrower or any of the Borrower's wholly owned Subsidiaries and the Attributable Share of such cash expenditures for losses incurred by each of the Borrower's other Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership; in the case of each of clauses (a) through (f) above, to the extent, but only to the extent, that the amounts so deducted are actually paid during such fiscal year. "Existing Indebtedness" means the Indebtedness of the Borrower, the Borrower's Subsidiaries and the Principal Cellular Partnerships as of the date hereof, as set forth in Schedule II hereto. "Existing Partnership Agreements" means (a) the Houston Partnership Agreement, (b) the Dallas Partnership Agreement, (c) the Los Angeles Partnership Agreement and (d) the New York Partnership Agreement. "Facilities" means the Term Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility. "FCC" means the Federal Communications Commission or any successor agency or entity performing substantially the same functions. "FCC License" means any mobile telephone, cellular telephone, mobile satellite, microwave or other communications license, permit, certificate of compliance, franchise, approval or authorization granted or issued by the FCC, whether for control, ownership, construction or operation of or provision of service by a Cellular System. "Federal Funds Rate" means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal for each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions, with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it. "Final Maturity Date" means the earlier of September 30, 2000 and the date of termination in whole of the Commitments pursuant to Section 2.04 or 6.01. "Financial Officer" means, as to any Person, the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, any vice president-finance, the treasurer or the controller of that Person. "Franchise" means a franchise, permit or license (including, without limitation, an FCC License), designation (including, without limitation, as a Cellular Tentative Selectee) or certificate granted by the United States or any other country or state or any city, town, county or other municipality (to the extent subject to regulation thereby), public utility commission or public service commission, power company or any other regulatory authority pursuant to which a Person has the right to own, control, construct or operate a Cellular System. "Franchise Interest" means a direct or indirect ownership interest in any Person that is a Cellular Entity. "GAAP" has the meaning specified in Section 1.03. "Geographically Related RSA" means (a) an RSA located adjacent to or within 25 miles of an MSA Cellular System controlled by the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership and (b) each of NY-5, NY-6, CT-1 and CA-4, as such terms are defined by the FCC for purposes of Cellular System licensing. "Hazardous Materials" means all materials subject to any Environmental Law, including, without limitation, materials listed in 49 C.F.R. Section 172.101, materials defined as hazardous pursuant to Section 101(14) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, flammable, explosive or radioactive materials, hazardous or toxic wastes or substances, petroleum or petroleum distillates, PCBs or asbestos or materials containing asbestos. "Hedge Agreements" means interest rate swap, cap, ceiling, hedge or other interest rate protection agreements designed to hedge against fluctuations in interest rates. "Houston Partnership" means Houston Cellular Telephone Company. "Houston Partnership Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Partnership Agreement dated as of December 12, 1984, among Metro Mobile CTS, Cellular Systems, Inc. and Houston Mobile Cellular Communications Company, as amended through August 1, 1990. "Indebtedness" of any Person means (without duplication): (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of capital assets (including amounts owed to sellers of Franchise Interests or Cellular Systems for the acquisition thereof); (c) all obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments (other than performance bonds, letters of credit and similar undertakings in connection with the construction, development or operation of a business, to the extent such undertakings do not secure an obligation for borrowed money or the deferred purchase price of property or services); (d) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property); (e) all obligations of such Person as lessee under leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capital leases ("Capitalized Leases"), to the extent properly classified as a liability on the balance sheet of such Person; (f) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person under acceptance, letter of credit or other similar facilities (other than letters of credit and similar undertakings in connection with the construction, development or operation of a business, to the extent such undertakings do not secure an obligation for borrowed money or the deferred purchase price of property or services); (g) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value, any capital stock of such Person or any warrants, rights or options to acquire such capital stock, which obligations shall be valued, in the case of Redeemable Preferred Stock, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends and, in the case of other such obligations, at the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at the time of determination, can reasonably be expected to become payable; (h) all Indebtedness referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above guaranteed directly or indirectly by such Person, or in effect guaranteed directly or indirectly by such Person through an agreement, (i) to pay or purchase such Indebtedness or to advance or supply funds for the payment or purchase of such Indebtedness, (ii) to purchase, sell or lease (as lessee or lessor) property, or to purchase or sell services, primarily for the purpose of enabling the debtor to make payment of such Indebtedness or to assure the holder of such Indebtedness against loss, (iii) to supply funds to or in any other manner invest in the debtor (including any agreement to pay for property or services irrespective of whether such property is received or such services are rendered, but excluding any obligation to make capital contributions to a Principal Cellular Partnership in accordance with the terms of the applicable Existing Partnership Agreement other than an obligation to make such contributions to assure a creditor of such Principal Cellular Partnership against loss), or (iv) otherwise to assure a creditor against loss; and (i) all Indebtedness referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including, without limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness. "Indemnified Party" has the meaning specified in Section 8.04(b). "Insufficiency" means, with respect to any Plan, the amount, if any, of its unfunded benefit liabilities within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA. "Interest Expense" means, for any period, interest expense for such period, including, without limitation, imputed interest on Capitalized Leases, financing fees paid to lenders in connection with Indebtedness permitted by Section 5.02(b) (excluding, without limitation, reimbursement of expenses, indemnification or other similar costs) and fees paid to hedge lenders for Hedge Agreements. "Interest Period" means, for each Adjusted CD Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing or each LIBO Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Advance or the date of the Conversion of any Advance into such an Advance, and ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below and, thereafter, each subsequent period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below. The duration of each such Interest Period shall be (a) in the case of a LIBO Rate Advance, one, two or three months and, subject to clause (iv) below, six months, and (b) in the case of an Adjusted CD Rate Advance, 30, 60, 90 or 180 days, as the Borrower, upon notice received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day (in the case of a LIBO Rate Advance) or the second Business Day (in the case of an Adjusted CD Rate Advance) prior to the first day of such Interest Period, may select; provided, however, that: (i) the Borrower may not select any Interest Period that ends after the Final Maturity Date; (ii) the Borrower may, subject to Section 2.02(b)(i), make more than one Borrowing on any Business Day, but Interest Periods commencing on the same date for LIBO Rate Advances or Adjusted CD Rate Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing shall be of the same duration; (iii) whenever the last day of any Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than a Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be extended to occur on the next succeeding Business Day; provided, however, that, in the case of the Interest Period for a LIBO Rate Advance, if such extension would cause the last day of such Interest Period to occur in the next following calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period shall occur on the next preceding Business Day; (iv) with respect to LIBO Rate Advances, the Borrower shall not be entitled to elect an Interest Period having a duration of six months if, by the close of business (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest Period, any Appropriate Lender notifies the Administrative Agent (which shall deliver a copy of such notice to the Borrower) that such Lender would be unable to obtain funding for, or that the LIBO Rate will not reflect the cost to such Lender of funding or maintaining, the LIBO Rate Advance to be made by such Lender for the period selected by the Borrower and any such Advances made by the Appropriate Lenders on the first day of such Interest Period shall be Base Rate Advances; following receipt of such notice, the Borrower's right to select Interest Periods of LIBO Rate Advances having a duration of six months shall be suspended until such Lender subsequently notifies the Administrative Agent that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist; and (v) whenever the first day of any Interest Period occurs on a day of an initial calendar month for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that succeeds such initial calendar month by the number of months equal to the number of months in such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such succeeding calendar month. "Investment" in any Person means any loan or advance to such Person, any purchase or other acquisition of any capital stock, warrants, rights, options, obligations or other securities of such Person, any capital contribution to such Person or any other investment in such Person, including, without limitation, any arrangement pursuant to which the investor incurs Indebtedness of the types referred to in the definition of "Indebtedness" in respect of such Person. "LCH" means LCH Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation. "LCH Assets" means all assets of LCH held on the date of the initial borrowing under the 1990 Credit Agreement, including, without limitation, WOTV and all capital stock of LIN-Penn, but excluding all capital stock of LCN. "LCH Preferred Stock" means all of LCH's Class A Redeemable Preferred Stock. "LCN" means LCN Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation. "Lenders" means the banks and the other financial institutions and investors listed on the signature pages hereof and each Eligible Assignee that shall become a party hereto pursuant to Section 8.07. "LIBO Lending Office" means, with respect to any Lender, the office of such Lender specified as its "LIBO Lending Office" set forth opposite its name in Schedule I hereto or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender (or, if no such office is specified, its Domestic Lending Office), or such other office of such Lender as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. "LIBO Rate" means, for the Interest Period for each LIBO Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing, an interest rate per annum equal to the rate per annum obtained by dividing (a) the average (rounded upward to the nearest whole multiple of 1/16 of 1% per annum, if such average is not such a multiple) of the rate per annum at which deposits in Dollars are offered to the Reference Lenders by leading banks in the London interbank market at 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period in an amount substantially equal to such Reference Lender's LIBO Rate Advance comprising part of such Borrowing to be outstanding during such Interest Period and for a period equal to such Interest Period by (b) a percentage equal to 100% minus the LIBO Rate Reserve Percentage for such Interest Period. The LIBO Rate for the Interest Period for each LIBO Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing shall be determined by the Administrative Agent on the basis of applicable rates furnished to and received by the Administrative Agent from the Reference Lenders two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period, subject, however, to the provisions of Sections 2.02(b) and 2.09. "LIBO Rate Advance" means an Advance that bears interest as provided in Section 2.06(a). "LIBO Rate Reserve Percentage" means, for the Interest Period for each LIBO Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing, the reserve percentage applicable two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period under regulations issued from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including, without limitation, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in New York City with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities (or with respect to any other category of liabilities that includes deposits by reference to which the interest rate on LIBO Rate Advances is determined) having a term equal to such Interest Period. "Lien" means any lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance of any kind, or any other type of preferential arrangement, including, without limitation, the lien or retained security title of a conditional vendor and any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, but not including any inchoate right of set-off as such. "LIN" means LIN Broadcasting Corporation, a Delaware corporation. "LIN Cellular Holdings" means LIN Cellular Holdings, Inc., a New York corporation. "LIN Parties" means the Borrower, LIN Cellular Holdings and LCN. "LIN Penn" means LIN Cellular Communications Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation. "LIN Satellite" means LIN Satellite Communications Corporation, a Delaware corporation. "LIN Share" means each issued and outstanding share of LIN's common stock. "Los Angeles Partnership" means Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Company. "Los Angeles Partnership Agreement" means the Partnership Agreement dated as of June 22, 1983 among Los Angeles Cellular Corporation and LIN Cellular Communications Corporation, as amended through August 1, 1990. "Majority Entity" means, with respect to AT&T, any Person of which AT&T legally and beneficially owns more than 50% of the combined voting power of all of such Person's Voting Stock. "Managing Agents" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. "Material Agreement" means each agreement that is material to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any of the Principal Cellular Partnerships (other than agreements that relate to Indebtedness permitted by Section 5.02(b)). "Material Entity" means (i) any entity that individually generated at least 20% of Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters or (ii) any group of entities, none of the members of which individually generated 20% or more of Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for any such period, but that in the aggregate generated at least 20% of Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters. "Material Event" means, with respect to the Private Market Value Guarantee, any of the following: (i) the determination of a private market price for LIN Shares pursuant to Section 2(C) thereof; (ii) the execution of an agreement with LIN pursuant to which McCaw will proceed with an Acquisition (as defined in Section 2(D) thereof); (iii) the approval by the public stockholders of LIN of an Acquisition by McCaw as required by Section 2(E) thereof; and (iv) the determination by McCaw to proceed with a sale of LIN pursuant to Section 2(F) thereof. "McCaw" means McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation. "McCaw Family" has the meaning specified in the Shareholders Agreement as in effect on February 26, 1990. "Merger" means the merger of Ridge with and into McCaw, with McCaw as the surviving corporation in accordance with the terms set forth in the AT&T Merger Agreement. "Minority Entity" means any Person that owns or operates a Cellular Business, other than (a) one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or a Principal Cellular Partnership, in which any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries holds an equity or other ownership interest and (b) LCH Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation. "MMM Holdings" means MMM Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation. "MSA" means a "Metropolitan Statistical Area", as such term is defined and modified by the FCC for purposes of Cellular System licensing. "Multiemployer Plan" means a multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years made or accrued an obligation to make contributions, such plan being maintained pursuant to one or more collective bargaining agreements. "Multiple Employer Plan" means a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates and at least one Person other than the Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in respect of which the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates could have liability under Section 4064 or 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated. "1990 Collateral Agent" means the "Collateral Agent", as such term is defined in the 1990 Credit Agreement. "1990 Commitments" means the "Commitments", as such term is defined in the 1990 Credit Agreement. "1990 Credit Agreement" means the $1,750,000,000 Credit Agreement dated as of August 1, 1990 among the Borrower, Morgan Trust Company of New York, as administrative agent and as arranger, Citibank, N.A., as arranger and collateral agent, Toronto-Dominion, as arranger, and the financial institutions named therein as lenders, as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as of June 15, 1993 and by the Amendment, and as such agreement may be further amended to the extent that any such amendment is not adverse to the rights and remedies of the Agents or any Lender hereunder or the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement. "1990 Lenders" means the "Lenders", as such term is defined in the 1990 Credit Agreement. "1990 Loan Documents" means the 1990 Credit Agreement and the "Security Agreements" and the "Guarantees", in each case as such term is defined in the 1990 Credit Agreement. "1990 Required Lenders" means the "Required Lenders", as such term is defined in the 1990 Credit Agreement. "Net Cash Proceeds" means, for any sale, lease, transfer or disposition of any asset by any Person or any extraordinary transaction by such Person, the aggregate amount of cash received by or on behalf of such Person for such asset or from such transaction after deducting therefrom: (a) the amount of such proceeds required to be applied to repay Indebtedness incurred by it or any Subsidiary of such Person or any Principal Cellular Partnership or Indebtedness secured by a Lien on any asset so disposed; (b) brokerage commissions, legal fees, finder's fees and other similar fees and commissions; (c) taxes payable on or before the first anniversary of the consummation of such transaction in connection with or as a result of such transaction; and (d) other out-of-pocket costs incurred in connection therewith, in the case of each of clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) above to the extent, but only to the extent, that the amounts so deducted are, at or about the time of receipt of such cash, actually paid to a Person that is not an Affiliate of such Person (or, if paid to such an Affiliate, to the extent the terms of such payment are no more favorable to such Affiliate than such terms would be in an arm's-length transaction) and are properly attributable to such transaction or to the asset that is the subject thereof. "Net Income" means, for any Person and for any period, the net income (or net loss) of such Person for such period; provided that such amount shall be adjusted to exclude (to the extent otherwise included therein): (a) any restoration to income of any contingency reserve, except to the extent that provision for such reserve was made out of income accrued during such period and except for normal accruals and reversals in the ordinary course of business; (b) any write-up or write-down of any asset; (c) any net gain from the collection of the proceeds of life insurance policies; (d) any gain or loss arising from the acquisition of any securities or Indebtedness of such Person and any net loss arising from the exercise of any warrant of such Person; (e) any deferred credit representing the excess of equity in any Person at the date of acquisition over the cost of the Investment in such Person; (f) any aggregate net gain (or loss) during such period arising from the sale, exchange or other disposition of capital assets (such term to include all fixed assets, whether tangible or intangible, all inventory sold in conjunction with the disposition of fixed assets, and all securities) other than (i) any sale, exchange or other disposition in the ordinary course of business and (ii) any sale, exchange or disposition of equipment utilized in the business of such Person, the ratable share of Net Income of which is included herein; (g) all extraordinary items; and (h) any net income that is attributable to an entity that is neither a Subsidiary of such Person nor a Principal Cellular Partnership, other than amounts actually received by such Person as a distribution or a dividend. "New York Partnership" means Cellular Telephone Company. "New York Partnership Agreement" means the Partnership Agreement dated as of March 18, 1983 among LIN Cellular Communications Corporation, Metromedia, Inc. and Cellular Systems, Inc., as amended through August 1, 1990. "Notice of Borrowing" has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(a). "NYPSC" means the New York Public Service Commission or any successor agency or entity performing substantially the same functions. "OECD" means the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. "Operating Cash Flow" means, for any Person for any period, the sum of: (a) the Net Income of such Person for such period; plus (b) the sum of the following items (to the extent deducted in the computation of such Net Income): (i) depreciation expense; (ii) amortization expense; (iii) Interest Expense; (iv) charges for reserves for deferred taxes established with respect to such period (less reversals during such period of reserves for deferred taxes); and (v) other non-cash items. "Other Taxes" has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(b). "Parent Restrictive Agreement" has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(q). "PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or any successor agency or entity performing substantially the same functions. "Permitted Asset Swap" means any disposition of Cellular Assets (other than any interest in the New York Partnership or the Los Angeles Partnership) by the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries meeting the following criteria: (a) such disposition shall be in exchange for Approved Cellular Assets that have an aggregate fair market value equivalent to the Cellular Assets disposed of, such determination to be made in the good faith judgment of a Financial Officer of the Borrower and so stated in a certificate of such Financial Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent upon consummation of such disposition and acquisition of Cellular Assets; or (b) such disposition shall be for fair value and for cash and shall be followed by an acquisition of Approved Cellular Assets meeting the following criteria: (i) within 30 days after the consummation of such disposition, a Financial Officer of the Borrower shall have delivered a certificate to the Administrative Agent stating that the Borrower or one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries shall have entered into one or more binding agreements to acquire Approved Cellular Assets having an aggregate fair market value equivalent to the Cellular Assets disposed of (such determination to be made in the good faith judgment of such Financial Officer of the Borrower and so stated in such certificate) and (ii) within 270 days after the date on which such binding agreement or agreements have been executed and delivered by the parties thereto, a Financial Officer of the Borrower shall have delivered a certificate to the Administrative Agent stating that the Borrower or one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries shall have consummated such acquisition. "Permitted Liens" means such of the following as to which no enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure proceeding shall have been commenced (unless otherwise provided in this definition): (a) Liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies to the extent not required to be paid by the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership under Section 5.01(b); (b) Liens imposed by law, such as materialmen's, mechanics', carriers', workmen's and repairmen's Liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business securing obligations that are not overdue for a period of more than 60 days; (c) Liens (other than any Lien imposed by ERISA) or deposits made in the ordinary course of business to secure obligations under workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations (to the extent such undertakings do not secure obligations for the payment of borrowed money or the deferred purchase price of property or services); (d) easements, rights of way and other encumbrances on title to real property that do not materially adversely affect the use of such property for its present purposes; and (e) judgment Liens that in the aggregate do not exceed $5,000,000, each of which has not been in existence for a period of more than 60 days or the execution of each of which has been stayed pending appeal. "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust), joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency thereof. "Plan" means a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan. "Pops" means, for any MSA or RSA, the number of residents of such MSA or RSA (as the case may be) as reflected in the Donnelly Marketing Service population estimates for 1989. "Preferred Stock" means, for any corporation, capital stock issued by such corporation that is entitled to a preference or a priority over any other capital stock issued by such corporation upon any distribution of such corporation's assets, whether by dividend or upon liquidation. "Principal Cellular Partnership" means each of the Dallas Partnership, the Houston Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership and the New York Partnership. "Private Market Value Guarantee" means the Private Market Value Guarantee dated December 11, 1989 between McCaw and LIN. "PUC" means any state regulatory agency or body that exercises jurisdiction over the ownership, construction or operation of Cellular Systems. "Redeemable" means, with respect to any capital stock, Indebtedness or other right or obligation, any such right or obligation that (a) the issuer has undertaken to redeem at a fixed or determinable date or dates, whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise, or upon the occurrence of a condition not solely within the control of the issuer or (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder. "Reference Lenders" means Toronto-Dominion and Scotiabank. "Register" has the meaning specified in Section 8.07(c). "Regulatory Authority" means the FCC, the NYPSC, each other PUC and any other comparable state or local authority that has jurisdiction over the control, ownership, licensing, construction or operation of all or any part of any Cellular System or the provision of service or the charges for such service in any Cellular System. "Required Appropriate Lenders" means, for either Facility, at any time, Lenders owed more than 50% of the then aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances owing to Lenders under such Facility or, if no such principal amount is outstanding, Lenders having more than 50% of the Commitments for such Facility. "Required Lenders" means, at any time, Lenders owed or holding in the aggregate more than 50% of the sum of (a) the then aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances plus (b) the then aggregate Unused Revolving Credit Commitments. "Restrictive Agreement" has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(q). "Revolving Credit Advance" has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b). "Revolving Credit Borrowing" means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit Advances of the same Type made by the Revolving Credit Lenders. "Revolving Credit Commitment" means for each Lender the amount set forth opposite such Lender's name in Schedule I hereto under the heading "Revolving Credit Commitment" or, if such Lender has entered into one or more Assignments and Acceptances, set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.07(c), as the same may be reduced pursuant to Section 2.04. "Revolving Credit Facility" means the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders' Revolving Credit Commitments. "Revolving Credit Lender" means any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment. "Ridge" means Ridge Merger Corporation, a Delaware corporation wholly owned by AT&T. "RSA" means a "Rural Service Area", as such term is defined and modified by the FCC for purposes of Cellular System licensing. "Scotiabank" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. "Senior Debt" means Consolidated Debt, other than Subordinated Debt. "Severable Equipment" means any addition, modification or improvement to the initial configuration of any Cellular System that may be removed therefrom without diminishing or impairing the function, utility, performance or operating condition of the initial configuration as in effect immediately prior to the making or installation of such addition, modification or improvement. "Shareholders Agreement" means the Shareholders Agreement dated as of May 31, 1989 among McCaw, the Trustees under the will of the late Eben D. Jordan, the Trustees of the Taylor Voting Trust, the holders of certain units of the Taylor Voting Trust, Craig O. McCaw, John E. McCaw, Jr., Bruce R. McCaw, Keith W. McCaw and the other parties named therein, as amended from time to time. "Single Employer Plan" means a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates and no Person other than the Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in respect of which the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates could have liability under Section 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated. "Solvent" and "Solvency" mean, with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person's ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person's property would constitute an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability. "Subordinated Debt" means all Indebtedness of the Borrower that is subordinated to the obligations of the Borrower under or in respect of the 1990 Loan Documents and this Agreement on terms of subordination no less favorable to the Lenders than the terms set forth on Schedule III hereto, or as the Required Lenders may otherwise agree, and that otherwise contains terms and conditions satisfactory to the Required Lenders (including, without limitation, acceptable amortization schedules). "Subscriber Equipment" means any cellular mobile telephones, cellular portable telephones, speakers, mounting hardware, subscriber test equipment and similar subscriber equipment. "Subsidiary" of any Person means (a) any corporation of which more than 50% of the issued and outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the Board of Directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether at the time capital stock of any other class or classes of such corporation shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any contingency) is at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person, by such Person and one or more of its other Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Person's other Subsidiaries and (b) any partnership, joint venture, trust, estate or other association of which more than 50% of the equity interests having the power to vote to direct or control the management of such partnership, joint venture, trust, estate or other association is at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person, by such Person and one or more of the other Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Person's other Subsidiaries. "Supermajority Lenders" means, at any time, Lenders owed or holding in the aggregate at least 66-2/3% of the sum of (a) the then aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances plus (b) the then aggregate Unused Revolving Credit Commitments. "Tax Sharing Agreement" means the Tax Sharing Agreement dated August 10, 1990 between LIN and the Borrower. "Taxes" has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(a). "Term Advance" has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a). "Term Borrowing" means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Advances of the same Type made by the Term Lenders. "Term Commitment" means for each Lender the amount set forth opposite such Lender's name in Schedule I hereto under the heading "Term Commitment" or, if such Lender has entered into one or more Assignments and Acceptances, set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.07(c), as the same may be reduced pursuant to Section 2.04. "Term Facility" means the aggregate amount of the Term Lenders' Term Commitments. "Term Lender" means any Lender that has a Term Commitment. "TD (Texas)" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. "Toronto-Dominion" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement. "Type" refers to the distinction between Advances bearing interest at the Base Rate, Advances bearing interest at the LIBO Rate and Advances bearing interest at the Adjusted CD Rate. "Unused Revolving Credit Commitments" means, with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, such Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment at such time minus the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit Advances made by such Lender and outstanding at such time. "United States" means the United States of America. "Voting Stock" means capital stock issued by a corporation, or equivalent interests in any other Person, the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even though the right to so vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency. "Welfare Plan" means a welfare plan, as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA, maintained for employees of the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates. "Withdrawal Liability" has the meaning given such term under Part 1 of Subtitle E of Part IV of ERISA. "WOTV" means television station WOTV broadcasting from Grand Rapids, Michigan and the assets related thereto. "Year End Period" means the period from December 15th of any year through January 15th of the following year. SECTION 1.02. Computation of Time Periods. In this Agreement in the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word "from" means "from and including" and each of the words "to" and "until" means "to but excluding". SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms and Computations. All accounting terms not specifically defined herein shall be construed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistent with those applied in the preparation of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01(f) ("GAAP"). Unless otherwise provided herein, all computations and calculations to be made under this Agreement, including, without limitation, computations under Section 5.03, shall be made in accordance with GAAP. ARTICLE II AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES SECTION 2.01. The Advances. (a) The Term Advances. Each Term Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make a single advance (a "Term Advance") to the Borrower on any Business Day during the period from the date hereof until June 30, 1994 in an amount not to exceed such Lender's Term Commitment on such Business Day. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and repaid or prepaid may not be re-borrowed. (b) The Revolving Credit Advances. Each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make advances (each, a "Revolving Credit Advance") to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the date hereof until the Final Maturity Date in an amount for each such Advance not to exceed such Lender's Unused Revolving Credit Commitment on such Business Day. Each Revolving Credit Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount of not less than $50,000,000 or an integral multiple of $50,000,000 in excess thereof and shall consist of Revolving Credit Advances of the same Type made on the same day by the Revolving Credit Lenders ratably according to their Revolving Credit Commitments. Within the limits of each Revolving Credit Lender's Unused Revolving Credit Commitment in effect from time to time, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01(b), prepay pursuant to Section 2.07(a) and reborrow under this Section 2.01(b). SECTION 2.02. Making the Advances. (a) Each Borrowing shall be made on notice given not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day (in the case of a LIBO Rate Advance), on the second Business Day (in the case of an Adjusted CD Rate Advance), or on the Business Day (in the case of a Base Rate Advance) prior to the date of the proposed Borrowing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, which shall give to each Appropriate Lender prompt notice thereof by telecopier. Each such notice of a Borrowing (a "Notice of Borrowing") shall be by telephonic notice, confirmed immediately in writing by telecopier, in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, specifying therein the requested (i) date of such Borrowing, (ii) Facility under which such Borrowing is being made, (iii) Type of Advances comprising such Borrowing, (iv) aggregate amount of such Borrowing, (v) purpose or purposes for which the proceeds of such Borrowing will be used and (vi) Interest Period for each such Advance. In the case of a proposed Borrowing comprised of LIBO Rate Advances or Adjusted CD Rate Advances, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the applicable interest rate under Section 2.06(a) or (b). Each Appropriate Lender shall, before 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date of such Borrowing, make available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent's Account, in same day funds, such Lender's ratable portion of such Borrowing. After the Administrative Agent's receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent will make such funds available to the Borrower by crediting the Borrower's Account. (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing: (i) the Borrower shall not be entitled to make a Borrowing if, after giving effect to such Borrowing, there would be outstanding more than ten different Borrowings that bear interest at the LIBO Rate or the Adjusted CD Rate; (ii) if any Appropriate Lender shall, at least one Business Day before the date of any requested Borrowing to bear interest at the LIBO Rate, or at any other time from time to time, notify the Administrative Agent that the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation makes it unlawful, or that any central bank or other governmental authority asserts that it is unlawful, for such Lender or its LIBO Lending Office to perform its obligations hereunder to make LIBO Rate Advances or to fund or maintain LIBO Rate Advances hereunder, the right of the Borrower to select LIBO Rate Advances for such Borrowing or any subsequent Borrowing or to Convert any Advances into LIBO Rate Advances shall be suspended until such Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent that the circumstances that caused such suspension no longer exist, and each Advance comprising such Borrowing shall be or Convert into (on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor), as the case may be, a Base Rate Advance; (iii) if neither Reference Lender furnishes timely information to the Administrative Agent for determining the Adjusted CD Rate for any Adjusted CD Rate Advances, or the LIBO Rate for any LIBO Rate Advances, comprising any requested Borrowing: (A) the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the interest rate cannot be determined for such Adjusted CD Rate Advances or LIBO Rate Advances (as the case may be); (B) the right of the Borrower to select Adjusted CD Rate Advances or LIBO Rate Advances (as the case may be) for such Borrowing or any subsequent Borrowing or to Convert any Advances into Adjusted CD Rate Advances or LIBO Rate Advances (as the case may be) shall be automatically suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances that caused such suspension no longer exist; and (C) each Advance comprising such Borrowing shall be or Convert into (on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor), as the case may be, a Base Rate Advance; and (iv) if the Required Appropriate Lenders shall, at least one Business Day before the date of any requested Borrowing to bear interest at the LIBO Rate, or at any other time from time to time, notify the Administrative Agent that the LIBO Rate for LIBO Rate Advances for any Interest Period for such Advances will not adequately reflect the cost to such Lenders of making, funding or maintaining their respective LIBO Rate Advances for such Interest Period, the right of the Borrower to select LIBO Rate Advances for such Borrowing or any subsequent Borrowing or to Convert any Advances into LIBO Rate Advances shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances that caused such suspension no longer exist, and each Advance comprising such Borrowing shall be or Convert into (on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor), as the case may be, a Base Rate Advance. (c) Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. In the case of any Borrowing that the related Notice of Borrowing specifies is to be comprised of Adjusted CD Rate Advances or LIBO Rate Advances, the Borrower shall indemnify each Appropriate Lender against any loss, cost or expense incurred by such Lender as a result of any failure to fulfill on or before the date specified in such Notice of Borrowing for such Borrowing the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, including, without limitation, any loss (including loss of anticipated profits), cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Lender to fund the Advance to be made by such Lender as part of such Borrowing when such Advance, as a result of such failure, is not made on such date. (d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from an Appropriate Lender prior to the date of any Borrowing under a Facility under which such Lender has a Commitment that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's ratable portion of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section 2.02, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not have so made such ratable portion available to the Administrative Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable at such time under Section 2.06 to Advances comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate. If such Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so repaid shall constitute such Lender's Advance as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement and the Borrower shall no longer be obligated to repay such amount to the Administrative Agent. (e) The failure of any Lender to make the Advance to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Advance on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Advance to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing. SECTION 2.03. Fees. (a) Facility Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a facility fee on the amount of such Lender's Commitment payable on the date of execution of this Agreement by the parties hereto, at a rate equal to 1-1/2%. (b) Commitment Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders a commitment fee on the average daily unused portion of each Lender's Commitments from the date of the Borrower's acceptance of each such Lender's Commitment in the case of each Lender that is a signatory hereto, and from the effective date specified in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender in the case of each other Lender, until the Final Maturity Date at the rate of 3/4 of 1% per annum, payable in arrears on the date of execution of this Agreement by the parties hereto, and thereafter quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December commencing on June 30, 1994 and on the Final Maturity Date. (c) Agents' Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Managing Agents and the Administrative Agent for their own accounts such fees as may from time to time be agreed between the Borrower and the Managing Agents and the Administrative Agent, respectively. SECTION 2.04. Reduction of the Commitments. (a) Optional. The Borrower shall have the right, upon at least three Business Days' notice to the Administrative Agent, to terminate in whole or reduce ratably in part the unused portions of the Term Commitments and the Unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided, however, that each partial reduction of a Facility (i) shall be in the minimum aggregate amount of $20,000,000 or an integral multiple of $10,000,000 in excess thereof and (ii) shall be made ratably among the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their Commitments with respect to such Facility. (b) Mandatory. Upon repayment in full of all amounts outstanding under the 1990 Credit Agreement and the termination of the 1990 Commitments in accordance with the terms of the 1990 Credit Agreement, each of the Term Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility shall thereafter be automatically and permanently reduced upon (x) any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of assets of the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries (other than dispositions of assets (other than Franchise Interests) in the ordinary course of business and Permitted Asset Swaps) and (y) the failure of any disposition of assets to continue to constitute a Permitted Asset Swap, in each case by an amount equal to the Net Cash Proceeds of the assets so sold, leased, transferred or otherwise disposed of, such reduction to be allocated to the Facilities first, to prepay ratably the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Advances, and second, to permanently reduce, ratably, the Revolving Credit Facility. SECTION 2.05. Repayment. The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders the outstanding principal amount of each Advance on the Final Maturity Date. SECTION 2.06. Interest. The Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender from the date of such Advance until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the following rates per annum: (a) LIBO Rate Advances. If such Advance is a LIBO Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times during the Interest Period for such Advance to the sum of (i) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period for such Advance plus (ii) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time on the first day of such Interest Period, payable in arrears on the last day of such Interest Period and, if such Interest Period has a duration of more than three months, on each day that occurs during such Interest Period every three months from the first day of such Interest Period (or, if there is no numerically corresponding day in such third month, the last day of such month). (b) Adjusted CD Rate Advances. If such Advance is an Adjusted CD Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times during the Interest Period for such Advance to the sum of (i) the Adjusted CD Rate for such Interest Period for such Advance plus (ii) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time during such Interest Period, payable in arrears on the last day of such Interest Period and, if such Interest Period has a duration of more than 90 days, on each day that occurs during such Interest Period every 90 days from the first day of such Interest Period. (c) Base Rate Advances. If such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times to the sum of (i) the Base Rate in effect from time to time plus (ii) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, payable in arrears quarterly on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December in each fiscal year of the Borrower and on the date such Base Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid in full. (d) Default Interest. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, the Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender, and on the unpaid amount of all interest, fees and other amounts payable hereunder that is not paid when due, payable in arrears on the dates referred to in subsection (a), (b) or (c) above and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to 2% per annum above the rate per annum required to be paid on such Advance pursuant to subsection (a), (b) or (c) above or, in the case of such other amounts, above the rate per annum required to be paid on Base Rate Advances pursuant to subsection (c) above. SECTION 2.07. Prepayments. (a) Optional. After making any mandatory reduction of the 1990 Commitments or any mandatory prepayments under the 1990 Credit Agreement pursuant to Sections 2.04(b) or 2.07(b) of the 1990 Credit Agreement, respectively, the Borrower may, upon at least one Business Day's notice with respect to Base Rate Advances and five Business Days' notice with respect to LIBO Rate Advances and Adjusted CD Rate Advances to the Administrative Agent stating the proposed date and aggregate principal amount of the prepayment, and, if such notice is given, the Borrower shall, prepay the outstanding principal amount of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid; provided, however, that (i) each partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal amount not less than $20,000,000 or an integral multiple of $10,000,000 in excess thereof and (ii) in the event any prepayment of a LIBO Rate Advance or an Adjusted CD Rate Advance shall be made on any day other than on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, the Borrower shall reimburse the Lenders in respect thereof pursuant to Section 8.04(c). (b) Mandatory Prepayments. (i) Upon repayment in full of all amounts outstanding under the 1990 Credit Agreement and the termination of the 1990 Commitments in accordance with the terms of the 1990 Credit Agreement, the Borrower shall thereafter, upon any sale, lease, transfer, or other disposition of assets (other than dispositions of assets (other than Franchise Interests) in the ordinary course of business and Permitted Asset Swaps) prepay an aggregate principal amount of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowings equal to such Net Cash Proceeds. Each such prepayment shall be applied first, ratably to the Term Facility and second, ratably to the Revolving Credit Facility. (ii) All prepayments under this subsection (b) shall be made together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid. SECTION 2.08. Conversion of Advances. (a) Optional. The Borrower may on any Business Day, upon notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Conversion and subject to the provisions of Section 2.10, Convert all or any portion of the Advances of one Type comprising the same Borrowing into Advances of another Type; provided, however, that (i) any Conversion of any Adjusted CD Rate Advances or LIBO Rate Advances into Base Rate Advances shall be made only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Adjusted CD Rate Advances or LIBO Rate Advances, (ii) any Conversion of any Adjusted CD Rate Advances or LIBO Rate Advances into Base Rate Advances shall be in an amount not less than $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (iii) no Conversion of any Advances shall result in more separate Borrowings than permitted under Section 2.02(b). Each such notice of Conversion shall, within the restrictions specified above, specify (x) the date of such Conversion, (y) the Advances to be Converted and (z) if such Conversion is into Adjusted CD Rate Advances or LIBO Rate Advances, the duration of the initial Interest Period for such Advances. Each notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. (b) Mandatory. If the Borrower shall fail to select the duration of any Interest Period for any Adjusted CD Rate Advances or any LIBO Rate Advances in accordance with the provisions contained in the definition of "Interest Period" in Section 1.01, the Administrative Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Appropriate Lenders, whereupon each such Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance. SECTION 2.09. Interest Rate Determination. (a) Each Reference Lender agrees to furnish to the Administrative Agent timely information for the purpose of determining each Adjusted CD Rate or LIBO Rate, as applicable. Subject to Section 2.02(b)(iii), if any one of the Reference Lenders shall not furnish such timely information to the Administrative Agent for the purpose of determining any such interest rate, the Administrative Agent shall determine such interest rate on the basis of timely information furnished by the remaining Reference Lender. (b) The Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Borrower and the Lenders of the applicable interest rate determined by the Administrative Agent for purposes of Section 2.06(a), (b) or (c) and the applicable rate, if any, furnished by each Reference Lender for the purpose of determining the applicable interest rate under Section 2.06(a) or (b). SECTION 2.10. Increased Costs, Etc. (a) If, due to either (i) the introduction of or any change (other than any change by way of imposition or increase of reserve requirements included in the Adjusted CD Rate Reserve Percentage or the LIBO Rate Reserve Percentage) in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation or (ii) the compliance with any guideline or request from any central bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law), there shall be any increase in the cost to any Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining Adjusted CD Rate Advances or LIBO Rate Advances (as the case may be), then the Borrower shall from time to time, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender for such increased cost. A certificate as to the amount of such increased cost, submitted to the Borrower by such Lender, shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. (b) If any Lender determines that compliance with any law or regulation or any guideline or request from any central bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law) affects or would affect the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender and that the amount of such capital is increased by or based upon the existence of such Lender's commitment to lend hereunder and other commitments of this type, then, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender, from time to time as specified by such Lender, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such Lender reasonably determines such increase in capital to be allocable to the existence of such Lender's commitment to lend hereunder. A certificate as to such amounts submitted to the Borrower by such Lender shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. (c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default, (i) each Adjusted CD Rate Advance and LIBO Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (ii) the obligation of the Lender to make, or to Convert Advances into, Adjusted CD Rate Advances and LIBO Rate Advances shall be suspended. SECTION 2.11. Payments and Computations. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment hereunder not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the day when due in Dollars to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent's Account in same day funds. The Administrative Agent will promptly thereafter cause like funds to be distributed (i) if such payment by the Borrower is in respect of principal or interest, commitment fees or any other obligation then payable hereunder to more than one Lender, to such Lenders for the account of their Applicable Lending Offices ratably in accordance with the amounts of such respective obligations then payable to such Lenders and (ii) if such payment by the Borrower is in respect of any obligation then payable hereunder to one Lender, to such Lender for the account of its Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of an Assignment and Acceptance and recording of the information contained therein in the Register pursuant to Section 8.07(c), from and after the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments hereunder in respect of the interest assigned thereby to the Lender assignee thereunder, and the parties to such Assignment and Acceptance shall make all appropriate adjustments in such payments for periods prior to such effective date directly between themselves. (b) If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Advances under circumstances for which this Agreement does not specify the Advances or the Facility to which, or the manner in which, such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent (i) shall, prior to any distribution of such funds, notify the Borrower that it has received such funds and (ii) may, on the Business Day following delivery of such notice to the Borrower, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each Lender ratably in accordance with such Lender's proportionate share of all outstanding Advances, in prepayment or repayment of such of the outstanding Advances or other obligations owed to such Lender, and for application to such principal installments, as the Administrative Agent shall direct. (c) The Borrower hereby authorizes each Lender, if and to the extent payment owed to such Lender is not made when due hereunder, to charge from time to time against any or all of the Borrower's accounts with such Lender any amount so due. (d) All computations of interest based on the Base Rate, the Adjusted CD Rate, the LIBO Rate or the Federal Funds Rate and of commitment fees shall be made by the Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each case for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest or fees are payable. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. (e) Whenever any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of interest or commitment fee, as the case may be; provided that if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of LIBO Rate Advances to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day. (f) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to any Lender hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment in full, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each such Lender on such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender. If and to the extent the Borrower shall not have so made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent, each such Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lender together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is distributed to such Lender until the date such Lender repays such amount to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate. SECTION 2.12. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made, in accordance with Section 2.11, free and clear of and without deduction for any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect thereto, excluding, in the case of each Lender and each Agent, taxes measured by its net income that are imposed on it by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender or such Agent (as the case may be) is organized or qualified to do business or any political subdivision thereof and, in the case of each Lender, by the jurisdiction of such Lender's Applicable Lending Office or any political subdivision thereof and excluding any gross receipts tax imposed on an Agent or Lender (as the case may be) in lieu of a net income tax by a jurisdiction (other than the United States) under the laws of which such Agent or Lender is organized, is qualified to do business or has its Applicable Lending Office or any political subdivision of any such jurisdiction (all such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities being hereinafter referred to as "Taxes"). If the Borrower shall be required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder to any Lender or any Agent, (i) the sum payable shall be increased as may be necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.12) such Lender or such Agent (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with applicable law. (b) In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay any present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies that arise from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement (hereinafter referred to as "Other Taxes"). (c) The Borrower will indemnify each Lender and each Agent for the full amount of Taxes or Other Taxes (including, without limitation, any Taxes or Other Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 2.12) paid by such Lender or such Agent (as the case may be) and any liability (including penalties, additions to tax, interest and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto. This indemnification shall be made within 30 days from the date such Lender or such Agent (as the case may be) makes written demand therefor. (d) Within 30 days after the date of any payment of Taxes, the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent, at its address referred to in Section 8.02, appropriate evidence of payment thereof. If no Taxes are payable in respect of any payment hereunder by or on behalf of the Borrower through an account or branch outside the United States or on behalf of the Borrower by a payor that is not a United States person, the Borrower will furnish, or will cause such payor to furnish, to the Administrative Agent, at such address, a certificate from each appropriate taxing authority or authorities, or an opinion of counsel acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in either case stating that such payment is exempt from or not subject to Taxes. For purposes of this subsection (d) and subsection (e) hereof, the terms "United States" and "United States person" shall have the meanings specified in Section 7701 of the Code. (e) Each Lender organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States shall, on or prior to the date of its execution and delivery of this Agreement in the case of each initial Lender and on the date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it becomes a Lender in the case of each other Lender, and from time to time thereafter if requested in writing by the Borrower or by the Administrative Agent (but only so long as such Lender remains lawfully able to do so), provide the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 or 4224, as appropriate, or any successor form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, certifying that such Lender is entitled to benefits under an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party that reduces the rate of withholding tax on payments under this Agreement or certifying that the income receivable pursuant to this Agreement is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States. If the form provided by an initial Lender at the time such Lender first becomes a party to this Agreement indicates a United States interest withholding tax rate in excess of zero, withholding tax at such rate shall be considered excluded from Taxes in the case of such initial Lender and in the case of any assignee of such initial Lender (to the extent interest payments to such assignee are subject to withholding tax on the date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such assignee became a Lender hereunder). In addition, if the form provided by any assignee Lender on the date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender became a Lender indicates a United States interest withholding tax at a rate in excess of the rate of such tax applicable to the assignor Lender on such date, the increase in such rate shall also be excluded from Taxes in the case of such assignee Lender. If any form or document referred to in this subsection (e) requires the disclosure of information, other than information necessary to compute the tax payable and information required on the date hereof by Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 or 4224, that the Lender reasonably considers to be confidential, the Lender shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and shall not be obligated to include in such form or document such confidential information. (f) For any period with respect to which a Lender has failed to provide the Borrower with the appropriate form described in subsection (e), including any failure to provide confidential information on such form pursuant to subsection (e) (other than any failure to provide a form or information that is due to a change in law occurring after the date on which a form originally was required to be provided, or if such form otherwise is not required under subsection (e)), such Lender shall not be entitled to indemnification under subsection (a) with respect to Taxes imposed by the United States; provided, however, that should a Lender become subject to Taxes because of its failure to deliver a form required hereunder, the Borrower shall take such steps as such Lender shall reasonably request to assist such Lender to recover such Taxes. (g) Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of this Agreement, in the event that a Lender that originally provided such form as may be required under subsection (e) thereafter ceases to qualify for complete exemption from United States withholding tax, such Lender may assign its interest under this Agreement to any assignee and such assignee shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Section 2.12 as the assignor provided that the rate of United States withholding tax applicable to such assignee shall not exceed the rate then applicable to the assignor. (h) Any Lender claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 2.12 shall use its best efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Applicable Lending Office if the making of such a change would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, any such additional amounts that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender. SECTION 2.13. Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender shall obtain any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off, or otherwise) on account of the Advances owing to it under any Facility (other than pursuant to Section 2.10, 2.12 or 8.04(c)) in excess of its ratable share of payments on account of the Advances under such Facility obtained by all the Appropriate Lenders, such Lender shall forthwith purchase from the other Appropriate Lenders such participations in the Advances under such Facility owing to them as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment ratably with each of them; provided, however, that, if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such purchasing Lender, such purchase from each Appropriate Lender shall be rescinded and such Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price to the extent of such recovery together with an amount equal to such Lender's ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Lender's required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered. The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender pursuant to this Section 2.13 may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of set-off) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. SECTION 2.14. Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Advances shall be available (and the Borrower agrees that it shall use such proceeds) solely to pay transaction fees and expenses, to finance or refinance, as the case may be, the acquisition of certain interests in and to the Cellular Entities serving the New York, New York MSA and the Litchfield, Connecticut RSA, respectively (such acquisitions, the "Acquisitions"), and for general corporate purposes. SECTION 2.15. Evidence of Indebtedness. (a) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Advance owing to such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder. (b) The Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.07(c) shall include a control account, and a subsidiary account for each Lender, in which accounts (taken together) shall be recorded (i) the date and amount of each Borrowing made, the Type of Advances comprising such Borrowing and any Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the terms of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it, (iii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iv) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent from the Borrower hereunder and each Lender's share thereof. (c) The entries made in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. ARTICLE III CONDITIONS OF LENDING SECTION 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Initial Borrowing. The obligation of each Lender to make an Advance on the occasion of the initial Borrowing is subject to the following conditions precedent: (a) The AT&T Merger Agreement shall be in full force and effect and shall not have been terminated. (b) There shall have occurred no material adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower or any Principal Cellular Partnership or in the cellular industry generally since March 31, 1994. (c) There shall exist no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting any LIN Party, any of the Borrower's other Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership or the cellular industry generally pending or threatened before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator that (i) would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower or any Principal Cellular Partnership, (ii) could, in the good faith judgment of the Lenders, have a material adverse effect on (a) the rights and remedies of the Agents or the Lenders under this Agreement or (b) the ability of any LIN Party to perform its obligations under this Agreement or the consummation of transactions contemplated hereby (other than the matters set forth in Schedule IV (the "Disclosed Litigation"), including, without limitation, the Acquisitions, or (iii) purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of the Merger, this Agreement or the confirmation of the transactions contemplated hereby, and there shall have been no adverse change in the status, or financial effect on the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity, or any Principal Cellular Partnership, of the Disclosed Litigation from that described on Schedule IV hereto. (d) The Borrower shall have paid all accrued fees and expenses of the Agents and the Lenders (including, without limitation, the accrued fees and expenses of counsel to the Managing Agents). (e) All governmental consents and approvals and third party consents and approvals necessary in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, the Acquisitions, shall have been obtained (without the imposition of any conditions or contingencies that are not acceptable to the Lenders) and shall remain in full force and effect (except as set forth on Schedule VI), and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken by any competent authority and no law or regulation shall be applicable that, in the good faith judgment of the Lenders, restrains, prevents or imposes materially adverse conditions upon this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby (including, without limitation, the Acquisitions) (except as set forth on Schedule VI). (f) The 1990 Required Lenders shall have executed the Amendment and the Amendment shall be in full force and effect. (g) The Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the date of the initial Borrowing (unless otherwise specified) the following, each dated (unless otherwise specified) such date of delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders (unless otherwise specified), and in sufficient copies for each Lender (unless otherwise specified): (i) Certified copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Borrower approving this Agreement and the Acquisitions, and certified copies of all documents evidencing other necessary corporate action and governmental approvals, if any, with respect to this Agreement and the Acquisitions. (ii) A copy of the charter of the Borrower and each amendment thereto, certified (as of a date reasonably near the date of the initial Borrowing hereunder) by the Secretary of State of Delaware as being a true and correct copy thereof. (iii) A copy of a certificate of the Secretary of State of the Borrower's state of incorporation, dated reasonably near the date of the initial Borrowing, listing the charter of the Borrower and each amendment thereto on file in his office and certifying that (A) the Borrower has paid all franchise taxes to the date of such certificate and (B) the Borrower is duly incorporated and in good standing under the laws of such state. (iv) A telegram from the Secretary of State of the Borrower's state of incorporation dated on or about the date of the initial Borrowing certifying that the Borrower is a presently subsisting corporation in such state and in good standing under the laws of such state. (v) A certificate of the Borrower, signed on behalf of the Borrower by its president or a vice president and its secretary or any assistant secretary, dated the date of the initial Borrowing (the statements made in which shall be true on and as of the date of the initial Borrowing), certifying as to (A) the absence of any amendments to the charter of the Borrower since the date of the certificate referred to in Section 3.01(g)(iii), (B) a true and correct copy of the bylaws of the Borrower as in effect on the date of the initial Borrowing, (C) the due incorporation and good standing of the Borrower, as a corporation organized under the laws of its state of incorporation, and the absence of any proceeding for the dissolution or liquidation of the Borrower, (D) the truth of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement as though made on and as of the date of the initial Borrowing and (E) the absence of any event occurring and continuing, or resulting from the initial Borrowing, that constitutes a Default. (vi) A certificate of the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Borrower certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of the Borrower signing this Agreement and the other documents to be delivered hereunder. (vii) A certified copy of the Amendment, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto, duly executed by the parties thereto. (viii) Such financial, business and other information regarding each LIN Party and its respective Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership as any Lender shall have requested, including, without limitation, information as to possible contingent liabilities, tax information, environmental information, obligations under ERISA and Welfare Plans, collective bargaining agreements and other arrangements with employees, annual financial statements dated December 31, 1993 and interim financial statements dated the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements are available; provided, however, that no Lender shall be entitled to receive any such information if the Borrower reasonably believes that the disclosure of such information to such Lender would violate the confidentiality provisions of an Existing Partnership Agreement. (ix) Certificates and letters attesting to the Solvency of the Borrower after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby, from the Borrower's chief financial officer, such certificate to be substantially in the form of Exhibit E. (x) A certificate of the Borrower having attached thereto a true and correct copy of each of the Material Agreements and all amendments thereto (such copies to be retained by the Administrative Agent; provided that any Lender may, at any reasonable time and upon reasonable notice to the Administrative Agent, examine such copies). (xi) A favorable opinion of Andrew A. Quartner, Vice President-Law of the Borrower, in substantially the form of Exhibit F hereto, and as to such other matters as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request. (xii) Favorable opinions of Cathleen Massey, Esq., FCC counsel to the Borrower, in substantially the form of Exhibit G hereto, and of Scott Morris, Vice-President Law of McCaw, PUC counsel to the Borrower, in substantially the form of Exhibit H hereto, and as to such other matters as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request and such other favorable opinions of such other FCC and PUC counsel as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request. (xiii) A favorable opinion of Shearman & Sterling, special counsel to the Managing Agents, in substantially the form of Exhibit I hereto. (xiv) Such other documents as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request. SECTION 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing. The obligation of each Appropriate Lender to make an Advance on the occasion of each Borrowing (including the initial Borrowing) shall be subject to the further conditions precedent that on the date of such Borrowing the following statements shall be true (and each of the giving of the applicable Notice of Borrowing and the acceptance by the Borrower of the proceeds of such Borrowing or, in the event that the Borrower does not deliver a Notice of Borrowing, the acceptance by the Borrower of the proceeds of such Borrowing shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that on the date of such Borrowing such statements are true): (a) no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Borrowing or from the application of the proceeds therefrom, that constitutes an Event of Default; and (b) such Borrowing has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action. SECTION 3.03. Conditions Precedent to Certain Borrowings. The obligation of each Appropriate Lender to make an Advance on the occasion of each Borrowing (including the initial Borrowing) that would increase the aggregate outstanding amount of Advances owing to such Lender immediately prior to the making of such Advance shall be subject to the further condition precedent that on the date of such Borrowing (a) the following statements shall be true (and each of the giving of the applicable Notice of Borrowing and the acceptance by the Borrower of the proceeds of such Borrowing shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that on the date of such Borrowing such statements are true): (i) the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement are correct on and as of the date of such Borrowing, before and after giving effect to such Borrowing and to the application of the proceeds therefrom, as though made on and as of such date, except to the extent that any such representation or warranty by its terms relates to a specified prior date; and (ii) no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Borrowing or from the application of the proceeds therefrom, that constitutes a Default; and (b) the Administrative Agent shall have received such other approvals, opinions or documents as any Appropriate Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request; provided that the obligations of each Lender to make an Advance pursuant to Section 8.04(d) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall be made by such Lender notwithstanding the failure of the Borrower to satisfy any condition set forth in Section 3.02 or 3.03. SECTION 3.04. Determinations Under Sections 3.01, 3.02 and 3.03. For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Section 3.01, or, in the case of the initial Borrowing, Sections 3.02 or 3.03, each Lender shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to the Lenders unless an officer of the Administrative Agent responsible for the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have received notice from such Lender prior to a Borrowing specifying its objection thereto (unless such objection shall have been withdrawn by notice to the Administrative Agent to that effect or such Lender shall have made available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's ratable portion of such Borrowing (as the case may be)). ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES SECTION 4.01. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower. The Borrower represents and warrants as follows: (a) Organization of the Loan Parties. Each LIN Party (i) is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, (ii) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or in which the conduct of its business requires it to so qualify or be licensed except where the failure to so qualify or be licensed would not have a material adverse effect on its business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects and (iii) has all requisite corporate power and authority to own or lease and operate its properties and to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted. (b) Organization of the Borrower's Subsidiaries, the Principal Cellular Partnerships and Minority Entities. Set forth in Schedule V hereto is a complete and accurate list, as of the date hereof, of all of the Borrower's Subsidiaries, the Principal Cellular Partnerships and all of the Minority Entities, showing as of the date hereof (as to each such Person) (i) for each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries, the jurisdiction of its incorporation, the number of shares of each class of capital stock authorized, and the number outstanding on the date hereof and the percentage of the outstanding shares of each such class owned (directly or indirectly) by the Borrower and the number of shares covered by all outstanding options, warrants, rights of conversion or purchase and similar rights at the date hereof and (ii) for each Principal Cellular Partnership and each Minority Entity, the percentage of equity interests owned by, and the percentage of voting power held by, the Borrower or one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries. All of the outstanding capital stock of all of the Borrower's Subsidiaries has been validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and all such shares are owned directly or indirectly by the Borrower, free and clear of all Liens (other than Liens created by the 1990 Loan Documents and the rights created by the instruments referred to in Schedule X hereto). Each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership (i) is a corporation or partnership (as the case may be) duly organized, validly existing and, with respect to the Borrower's corporate Subsidiaries, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation (as the case may be), (ii) is, in the case of the Borrower's corporate Subsidiaries, duly qualified as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or in which the conduct of its business requires it to so qualify or be licensed, except where the failure to so qualify or be licensed would not have a material adverse effect on its business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects and (iii) has all requisite corporate or partnership power and authority (as the case may be) to own or lease and operate its properties and to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted. (c) Compliance with Law. The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement and the consummation of the other transactions contemplated hereby are within the corporate power of the Borrower, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not and will not upon the consummation thereof (i) contravene the charter or bylaws of the Borrower, (ii) violate any law (including, without limitation, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Chapter of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, as amended, and the Communications Act of 1934, as amended), rule, regulation (including, without limitation, Regulations X and G of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award, (iii) conflict with or result in the breach of, or constitute a default under, any loan or credit agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, material contract, agreement or instrument binding on or affecting the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership or any of their respective properties or (iv) result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon or with respect to any of the properties of the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership. No LIN Party, Subsidiary of such LIN Party or Principal Cellular Partnership is in violation of any such law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award or in breach of any such contract, loan agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease, contract, agreement or credit instrument, the violation or breach of which could have a material adverse effect on the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity. (d) Approvals. No authorization, consent, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body or any other third party (including, without limitation, all Regulatory Authorities) is required for the due execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement, the Acquisitions or for the consummation of the other transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, except as otherwise noted on Schedule VI. All applicable waiting periods in connection with the Acquisitions and the other transactions contemplated hereby have expired, or prior to the consummation thereof will have expired, without any action having been taken by any competent authority restraining, preventing or imposing materially adverse conditions upon the Acquisitions or the rights of any LIN Party, any of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership freely to transfer or otherwise dispose of, or to create any Lien on, any properties now owned or hereafter acquired by any of them, except as otherwise set forth in Schedule VI hereto. (e) Legal Effect. This Agreement has been duly executed by the Borrower. This Agreement is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar law affecting creditors' rights generally. (f) Financial Information. (i) The Consolidated balance sheets of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries as at December 31, 1993, and the related Consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash flows of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then ended, and the combined balance sheets of LIN's unconsolidated Affiliates as at December 31, 1993, and the related combined statements of income, partners' equity and cash flows of LIN's unconsolidated Affiliates for the fiscal year then ended, accompanied by an opinion of Ernst & Young, independent public accountants, and (ii) the Consolidated condensed balance sheets of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries as at March 31, 1994, and the related Consolidated statements of income and cash flows of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries for the three months then ended, duly certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender, present fairly, in all material respects, subject, in the case of said balance sheets as at March 31, 1994, and said statements of income and cash flows for the three months then ended, to year-end audit adjustments, the Consolidated financial position of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries and the consolidated results of operations and cash flows and the combined financial position of LIN's unconsolidated Affiliates and the combined results of operations and cash flows, in each case as at such dates and for the periods ended on such dates, all in conformity with GAAP, and, since March 31, 1994, there has been no material adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, LIN Cellular Holdings, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity or in the cellular industry generally. (g) Pro Forma Financial Information. The combined pro forma balance sheet of the Borrower, the Borrower's Subsidiaries and the other Principal Cellular Partnerships (prepared on an Attributable Share basis) as at March 31, 1994, certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender, presents fairly, in all material respects, the combined pro forma financial position of the Borrower, the Borrower's Subsidiaries and the other Principal Cellular Partnerships (as described above) as at such date, giving effect to the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, all in conformity with GAAP other than such financial information, which has been presented on an Attributable Share basis. (h) Disclosure. No information, exhibit or report furnished by any LIN Party to any Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or pursuant to the terms of this Agreement contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to financial projections and forecasts included therein, the Borrower represents that such projections and forecasts were prepared in good faith based on the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were reasonable in light of the conditions existing at the time of delivery of such projections and forecasts, and represented, at the time of delivery, the Borrower's best estimate of its future financial performance. (i) Material Litigation. Other than the Disclosed Litigation, there is no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting any LIN Party, any of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership pending or threatened before any court, arbitrator, governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, that could have a material adverse effect on (i) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower or the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity, (ii) the rights and remedies of the Agents or the Lenders under this Agreement or (iii) the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement, or that purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby; and there has been no adverse change in the status, or financial effect on the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity, of the Disclosed Litigation from that described on Schedule IV. (j) ERISA Plans. Set forth in Schedule VII hereto is a complete and accurate list, as of the date hereof, of all Plans, Multiemployer Plans and Welfare Plans with respect to any employees of the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and all Welfare Plans that provide health or medical benefits to former employees of the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries. (k) No Reportable Event. As of the date hereof, no ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Plan. (l) Plan Funding. Schedule B (Actuarial Information) to the 1992 annual report (Form 5500 Series) for each Plan, copies of which have been filed with the Internal Revenue Service and furnished to the Lenders, is complete and accurate and fairly presents the funding status of such Plan, and since the date of such Schedule B there has been no material adverse change in such funding status. (m) Post Retirement Benefit Obligations. Except as set forth on the Borrower's financial statements provided under Section 3.01(g)(viii), the Borrower and its Subsidiaries have no material liability with respect to "expected post retirement benefit obligations" within the meaning of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 106. (n) No Catastrophic Events. Neither the business nor the properties of any LIN Party, any of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership are affected by any fire, explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other labor dispute, drought, storm, hail, earthquake, embargo, act of God or of the public enemy or other casualty (whether or not covered by insurance) that could have a material adverse effect on the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity. (o) Compliance with Environmental Law. The operations and properties of each LIN Party, each of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership comply in all material respects with all Environmental Laws and neither utilize, contain nor are affected by any Hazardous Materials that are not treated in compliance with all Environmental Laws, and no LIN Party, or any of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership has any material liability, contingent or otherwise, under any Environmental Law. (p) No Burdensome Agreements. No LIN Party, Subsidiary of such LIN Party or Principal Cellular Partnership is a party to any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any lease or other agreement or instrument or subject to any charter, corporate restriction or partnership restriction that could have a material adverse effect on (i) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity, (ii) the rights and remedies of the Agents or the Lenders under this Agreement or (iii) the ability of the Borrower to carry out its obligations under this Agreement. (q) Taxes. Each LIN Party, each of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership has caused to be filed or has been included in all tax returns (Federal, state and local) required to be filed by or with respect to each such Person or its property and has paid all taxes shown thereon to be due, together with applicable interest and penalties. (r) Investment Company Act of 1940. No LIN Party or Subsidiary of such LIN Party is an "investment company" or an "affiliated person" of, or "promoter" or "principal underwriter" for, an "investment company", as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Neither the making of any Advances, nor the application of the proceeds or repayment thereof by the Borrower nor the consummation of the other transactions contemplated hereby will violate any provision of such Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder. (s) Solvency. The Borrower is Solvent. (t) Condition of System. All of the material properties, equipment and systems of each LIN Party, each of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership are, and all material properties, equipment and systems to be added in connection with any contemplated system expansion or construction will be, in good repair, working order and condition and are and will be in material compliance with all applicable standards, rules or requirements imposed by (i) any governmental agency or authority (including, without limitation, any Regulatory Authority), (ii) any material Franchise and (iii) any agreements with telephone companies. (u) Fees. Each LIN Party, each of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership has paid all franchise, license or other fees and charges that have become due pursuant to any material Franchise in respect of its Cellular Businesses and has made adequate provisions for any such fees and charges that have accrued, except where the failure to pay such fees and charges would not be reasonably likely to (i) have a material adverse effect on the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity or (ii) result in the revocation, termination or adverse modification of a material Franchise held by such LIN Party, such Subsidiary or such Principal Cellular Partnership. (v) Public Utility Holding Company Act. No LIN Party is a "holding company", or a "subsidiary company" of a "holding company", or an "affiliate" of a "holding company" or of a "subsidiary company" of a "holding company", as such terms are defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended. (w) Capital Stock. On the date hereof, the authorized capital stock of the Borrower consists of 50,000 shares of common stock, par value $1.00 per share, of which 300 shares are issued and outstanding. All of such outstanding common stock of the Borrower has been validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by LCN free and clear of all Liens (other than Liens created by the 1990 Loan Documents). On the date hereof, there are no commitments by the Borrower for the sale or other disposition of, and no outstanding options to purchase, any of its capital stock. Neither the Borrower nor any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries is subject to any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase or otherwise acquire or retire any shares of its capital stock except as permitted under Section 5.02(f)(ii). (x) No Limitations on Dividends and Distributions. No LIN Party, Subsidiary of such LIN Party or Principal Cellular Partnership is subject or party to any agreement, Lien, charter, bylaw, partnership, regulatory or other provision (except for applicable statutory corporate law) restricting, directly or indirectly, the payment of dividends by such LIN Party's Subsidiary or the making of distributions, advances or other cash payments by any such Subsidiary or Principal Cellular Partnership other than the limitations contained in the agreements set forth in Schedule VIII hereto. (y) Licenses. Each LIN Party, each of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership has obtained all necessary Franchises from, and has filed all required registrations, applications, reports and other documents with, all Regulatory Authorities for its respective businesses as currently conducted. Each such Franchise is valid and in full force and effect; no event has occurred that would be reasonably likely to (i) result in the revocation, termination or adverse modification of any such Franchise, or (ii) affect materially and adversely any rights of the Borrower or any Principal Cellular Partnership thereunder; no such Person has any reason to believe that such Franchises will not be renewed in the ordinary course; and each such Person has sufficient time, materials, equipment, contract rights and other required resources to complete, in a timely fashion and in full, construction of all their Cellular Systems in compliance with all applicable technical standards and construction requirements and deadlines of any applicable Regulatory Authority. (z) Regulation of the Lenders. Neither any Agent nor any Lender will, by reason of the execution, delivery and performance (other than the enforcement of remedies) of this Agreement, be subject to the regulation or control of either the FCC or any other Regulatory Authority. (aa) Existing Indebtedness. Set forth in Schedule II hereto is a complete and accurate list of all Existing Indebtedness, showing as of the date hereof the principal amount outstanding thereunder. (bb) Material Agreements. Set forth in Schedule IX hereto is a complete and accurate list of all Material Agreements as of the date hereof, showing the parties, subject matter and term thereof. Each Material Agreement set forth in such Schedule IX has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by all parties thereto, has not been amended or otherwise modified (other than as indicated on Schedule IX hereto and as permitted by Section 5.02(l)), is in full force and effect and is binding upon and enforceable against all parties thereto in accordance with its terms, and, to the Borrower's knowledge, there exists no default under any Material Agreement by any party thereto. Each such Material Agreement complies with all applicable rules, regulations and standards of the FCC and other Regulatory Authorities. (cc) Ownership. Schedule V hereto sets forth as of the date hereof a complete and correct list of (i) each Cellular Entity in which any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership has a Franchise Interest showing whether such Entity is a Cellular Licensee, Cellular Permittee or Cellular Tentative Selectee, (ii) each MSA or RSA that such Cellular Entity is authorized to serve, (iii) the name of each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership that owns any such Franchise Interest, (iv) the form, class and percentage ownership and voting interest of each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership in such Cellular Entity, (v) the population of each MSA or RSA authorized to be served by each such Cellular Entity according to the Donnelly Marketing Service population estimates for 1989, (vi) the expiration date, if any, of the Franchise of such Cellular Entity, (vii) to the extent not otherwise set forth in Schedule V, each ownership interest of any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership in any Person, and the form, class and percentage of such ownership interest and (viii) the percentage of all outstanding Franchise Interests owned or subject to any agreement to purchase or sell or any option, put or call to which the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership is a party. (dd) Title to Property. Each LIN Party, each of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership has good and sufficient title to its respective properties and assets free and clear of all Liens, other than Liens created or permitted by the 1990 Loan Documents. (ee) Deposit Accounts. Neither the Borrower nor any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries has any deposit accounts other than the deposit accounts expressly permitted under the 1990 Credit Agreement. ARTICLE V COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER SECTION 5.01. Affirmative Covenants. So long as any Advance shall remain unpaid or any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Borrower will, unless the Required Lenders shall otherwise consent in writing: (a) Compliance with Laws, Etc. (i) Comply, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to comply, in all material respects, with all applicable law, rules, regulations and orders, such compliance to include, without limitation, compliance with the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, ERISA, all applicable Environmental Law and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Chapter of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, as amended, and (ii) obtain and maintain, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to obtain and maintain, all licenses, permits, franchises or other governmental authorizations and approvals necessary to own, acquire or dispose of their respective properties, to conduct their respective businesses or to comply with the FCC's or any other Regulatory Authority's construction, operating and reporting requirements, the violation of which or the failure to obtain or maintain which could materially adversely affect the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity. (b) Payment of Taxes, Etc. Pay and discharge, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to pay and discharge, before the same shall become delinquent, (i) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon such Person or upon such Person's property and (ii) all lawful claims that, if unpaid, might by law become a Lien upon its property; provided, however, that neither the Borrower nor any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries nor any Principal Cellular Partnership shall be required to pay or discharge any such tax, assessment, charge or claim that is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings and as to which appropriate reserves are being maintained. (c) Maintenance of Insurance. Maintain, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to maintain, insurance with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations in such amounts and covering such risks as is usually carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in the same general areas in which the Borrower, such Subsidiary or such Principal Cellular Partnership operates. (d) Preservation of Corporate and Partnership Existence, Etc. Preserve and maintain, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to preserve and maintain, its corporate or partnership existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that neither the Borrower, nor any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries nor any Principal Cellular Partnership shall be required to preserve any right or franchise (other than any Franchise and the corporate or partnership existence of any Person, the equity interest of which are subject to the Security Agreements) if the Board of Directors of the Borrower or such corporate Subsidiary or the partnership committee of such other Subsidiary or Principal Cellular Partnership shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Borrower, such Subsidiary or such Principal Cellular Partnership (as the case may be) and if the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity or to the Lenders. (e) Visitation Rights. At any reasonable time and from time to time and upon prior reasonable notice to the Borrower, permit any Agent, any of the Lenders or any agents or representatives thereof to examine and make copies of and abstracts from the records and books of account of, and visit the properties of, the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and any Principal Cellular Partnership and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and any Principal Cellular Partnership with any of their officers or directors or partners (as the case may be) and with their independent certified public accountants; provided, however, that, to the extent any such actions are prohibited by the terms of any Existing Partnership Agreement, the Borrower shall use its best efforts to obtain the consent of the other parties thereto to such actions. (f) Keeping of Books. Keep, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to keep, proper books of record and account, in which full and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions and the assets and business of the Borrower, each such Subsidiary and each such Principal Cellular Partnership in accordance with GAAP. (g) Maintenance of Properties, Etc. (i) Maintain and preserve, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to maintain and preserve, all of its properties that are then useful in the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and, from time to time, make or cause to be made all appropriate and proper repairs, renewals, replacements, additions and improvements thereto and keep all systems and equipment that are then subject to compliance with any standards or rules (including, without limitation, compliance with requirements as to the time periods in which system construction must be completed) imposed by any governmental agency or authority (including, without limitation, the FCC or any other Regulatory Authority) in material compliance with such standards or rules, (ii) install and maintain all equipment and systems, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to install and maintain all equipment and systems in compliance with any material requirement (x) imposed under FCC or any other Regulatory Authority regulations, permits, or licenses or (y) under agreements affecting the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership and (iii) maintain, preserve, protect and renew, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to maintain, preserve, protect and renew, all material Franchises, service marks, trademarks and trade names held by any of them that are useful or necessary to operate their respective Cellular Systems. (h) Performance of Material Agreements. Perform and observe all the terms and provisions of each Material Agreement to be performed or observed by it, maintain each such Material Agreement in full force and effect, enforce each such Material Agreement in accordance with its terms in a manner consistent with the Borrower's best interests (such determination to be made in the reasonable judgment of the Required Lenders), take all such action to such end as may be from time to time reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and is consistent with the terms of such Material Agreement and, upon request of the Administrative Agent, make to each other party to each such Material Agreement such demands and requests for information and reports or for action as the Borrower is entitled to make under such Material Agreement, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership to do so. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 5.01(h) shall prevent the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership from amending, modifying or changing any term of a Material Agreement to the extent permitted by Section 5.02(l). (i) Transactions with Affiliates. Conduct, and cause each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each of the Principal Cellular Partnerships to conduct, all transactions otherwise permitted hereunder and under the 1990 Loan Documents with any of their Affiliates on terms that in all material respects are fair and reasonable and no less favorable to the Borrower, such Subsidiary or such Principal Cellular Partnership (as the case may be) than it would obtain in a comparable arm's-length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate, other than (i) transactions conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Tax Sharing Agreement, (ii) transactions conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Approved Services Agreement, (iii) the acquisition of the LCH Assets to the extent permitted by Section 5.02(e)(iii), (iv) subject to the provisions of clause (v) below, transactions among the Borrower and any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership, other than any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership in which an Affiliate (other than the Borrower and the Borrower's Subsidiaries) has an equity or other ownership interest and (v) transactions with the Dallas Partnership so long as the aggregate percentage of equity interests having the power to vote to direct or control the management of the Dallas Partnership that are owned directly or indirectly by McCaw or an Affiliate thereof (other than the Borrower and the Borrower's Subsidiaries) at the time of consummation of any such transaction does not exceed the percentage held by McCaw and its Affiliates on August 1, 1990. (j) Reporting Requirements. Furnish to the Lenders: (i) as soon as possible and in any event within two days after the occurrence of each Default continuing on the date of such statement, a statement of a Financial Officer of the Borrower setting forth details of such Default and the action that the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto; (ii) as soon as available and in any event within 60 days after the end of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a Consolidated balance sheet of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries as of the end of such quarter and Consolidated statements of income and cash flows of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries for such quarter and for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding periods of the preceding fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and duly certified (which certification may be subject to year-end audit adjustments) by a Financial Officer of LIN as having been prepared in conformity with GAAP; (iii) as soon as available and in any event within 60 days after the end of each fiscal quarter of each fiscal year of the Borrower, (A) a combined balance sheet of the Borrower, the Borrower's Subsidiaries and the other Principal Cellular Partnerships (prepared on an Attributable Share basis) and a balance sheet of each of the New York Partnership, the Dallas Partnership and, together, the Houston Partnership and the Los Angeles Partnership, in each case as of the end of such quarter and (B) a combined statement of income of the Borrower, the Borrower's Subsidiaries and the other Principal Cellular Partnerships (prepared on an Attributable Share basis), a statement of the aggregate amount of capital expenditures of the Borrower, the Borrower's Subsidiaries and the other Principal Cellular Partnerships (determined on an Attributable Share basis), a statement of cash flows of the Borrower, statements of income of each of the New York Partnership, the Dallas Partnership and, together, the Houston Partnership and the Los Angeles Partnership and a statement of the aggregate amount of capital expenditures of such Partnership or Partnerships (as the case may be), in each case for such quarter and for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year all in reasonable detail and duly certified (which certification may be subject to year-end audit adjustments) by a Financial Officer of the Borrower as having been prepared in conformity with GAAP, except that such certification shall state that such financial information has been presented on an Attributable Share basis, together with (x) a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower stating (1) that no Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof and the action that the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto and (2) the aggregate number of subscribers served by all Cellular Entities in which the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership has a Franchise Interest and (y) a Compliance Certificate, including or accompanied by information sufficient to enable the Lenders to verify the calculations therein; (iv) as soon as available and in any event within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the annual audit report for such year for LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries, including therein a Consolidated balance sheet of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year, Consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash flows of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries, in each case for such fiscal year and certified in a manner acceptable to the Required Lenders by Ernst & Young, any other Approved Accountant or any other independent public accountants of recognized standing acceptable to the Required Lenders, together with (A) a certificate of such accounting firm to the Lenders stating that in the course of the regular audit of the business of LIN and LIN's Subsidiaries, which audit was conducted by such accounting firm in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, such accounting firm has obtained no knowledge that a Default has occurred and is continuing, or if, in the opinion of such accounting firm, a Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof, (B) a certificate of such accounting firm to the Lenders stating that the financial statements of the Borrower, the Borrower's Subsidiaries and the other Principal Cellular Partnerships for the last quarter of such fiscal year were prepared in conformity with GAAP (other than that such financial information was presented on an Attributable Share basis), (C) a Compliance Certificate, including or accompanied by information sufficient to enable the Lenders to verify the calculations therein, (D) a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof and the action that the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto and (E) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements for fiscal year 1995 and for each fiscal year occurring thereafter, a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower, in form satisfactory to the Managing Agents, setting forth the Excess Cash Flow for each such fiscal year and the calculation thereof; (v) promptly and in any event within fifteen days after the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to know that any ERISA Event has occurred, a statement of a Financial Officer of the Borrower describing such ERISA Event and the action, if any, that the Borrower or such ERISA Affiliate has taken or proposes to take with respect thereto; (vi) promptly and in any event within five Business Days after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate, copies of each notice from the PBGC stating its intention to terminate any Plan or to have a trustee appointed to administer any Plan; (vii) promptly and in any event within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Internal Revenue Service, copies of each Schedule B (Actuarial Information) to the annual report (Form 5500 Series) with respect to each Plan maintained or participated in by the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership that is an ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower; (viii) promptly and in any event within ten Business Days after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan, a copy of each notice received by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate concerning (A) the imposition of Withdrawal Liability by any Multiemployer Plan, (B) the reorganization or termination, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, of any Multiemployer Plan or (C) the amount of liability incurred, or that may be incurred, by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate in connection with any event described in clause (A) or (B) above; (ix) promptly upon receipt thereof, copies of all material financial reports or material written recommendations, if any, submitted to LIN by its auditors or received by the Borrower from the auditors of any Principal Cellular Partnership, in connection with each annual or interim audit or examination of its books or the books of any of LIN's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership (as the case may be); provided that the Borrower shall not be obligated to furnish any information pursuant to this clause (ix) the disclosure of which the Borrower reasonably believes would violate the confidentiality provisions of any of the Existing Partnership Agreements; and provided further that the Borrower shall use all reasonable efforts to obtain the release of any such information; (x) promptly after the commencement thereof, notice of all actions, suits and proceedings before any court or governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, affecting the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership of the type described in Section 4.01(i); (xi) promptly after the sending or filing thereof, copies of all proxy statements, financial statements and reports that LIN, LCN, the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries sends to its public stockholders, and copies of all regular, periodic and special reports, and all registration statements (other than Registration Statements on Form S-8) that LIN, LCN, the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries files with, and any comments or correspondence (other than those of a routine nature) received by LIN, LCN, the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries from, the Securities and Exchange Commission or any governmental authority that may be substituted therefor or with any national securities exchange; (xii) promptly after the furnishing thereof, any communication from any trustee, financial institution or other Person acting in a similar capacity pursuant to the terms of any indenture, loan or credit or similar agreement with respect to a principal amount of Indebtedness of $25,000,000 or more that relates to the occurrence or continuance of an event of default, the acceleration of Indebtedness or the amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of any such agreement; (xiii) promptly after LIN, the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries has reason to know, a statement of a Financial Officer describing in reasonable detail any (A) refusal or failure by any instrumentality to renew or extend any Franchise with respect to the Cellular Businesses of the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership, (B) proposed abandonment or proposed or actual revocation, termination or materially adverse modification of any Franchise or any dispute related thereto, (C) denial or threatened denial or revocation or material modification by any Regulatory Authority of any Franchise including, without limitation, by the FCC of any FCC Licenses, (D) notice from any Regulatory Authority of the imposition of any fines or penalties or forfeitures or (E) threats, notices or requests by any Regulatory Authority with respect to any of the foregoing, or with respect to any proceeding or hearing relating to the foregoing, that might result in any of the foregoing, either individually or in the aggregate, being materially adverse to the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity; (xiv) promptly and in any event within five Business Days after the occurrence thereof, notice of each Material Event under the Private Market Value Guarantee; (xv) promptly after the sending or filing thereof, any publicly available annual report or other comparable report delivered by the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to any PUC; (xvi) promptly after request therefor by any Lender, a statement of the number of subscribers (as of the end of any quarter) served by each of the New York Partnership, the Dallas Partnership and, on a combined basis, the Houston Partnership and the Los Angeles Partnership; and (xvii) promptly after request therefor, such other information respecting the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership as any Lender may from time to time reasonably request; provided that a Lender shall not be entitled to receive any information the disclosure of which the Borrower reasonably believes would violate (A) the restrictions regarding security imposed by the government of the United States or any agency thereof with respect to government contracts or (B) the confidentiality provisions of any of the Existing Partnership Agreements; provided further that the Borrower shall use all reasonable efforts to obtain the release of any such information requested pursuant to this clause (xvii). (k) Maintenance of Corporate Separateness. Conduct its business and operations and the business and operations of its Subsidiaries separately from McCaw, LIN and their respective Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries), including, without limitation, (i) not commingling funds or other assets of McCaw, LIN and their respective Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries) with the funds or other assets of the Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries, (ii) maintaining separate corporate and financial records and observing all corporate formalities, (iii) paying and causing each of its Subsidiaries to pay its liabilities from its assets, (iv) maintaining capitalization adequate to meet the business needs of each of its Subsidiaries and (v) conducting and causing each of its Subsidiaries to conduct its dealings with third parties in its own name and as a separate and independent entity. SECTION 5.02. Negative Covenants. So long as any Advance shall remain unpaid or any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Borrower will not, without the written consent of the Required Lenders: (a) Liens, Etc. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Lien on or with respect to any of its properties of any character (including, without limitation, accounts) whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or sign or file, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to sign or file, under the Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction, a financing statement that names the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership as debtor, or sign, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to sign, any security agreement authorizing any secured party thereunder to file such financing statement, or assign, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to assign, any accounts or other right to receive income; excluding, however, from the operation of the foregoing restrictions, the following: (i) Liens created by the 1990 Loan Documents; (ii) Permitted Liens; (iii) the Liens described on Schedule X; (iv) (A) Liens incurred in connection with Indebtedness permitted by Section 5.02(b)(ii)(B) and (B) purchase money Liens upon equipment or inventory held or acquired by the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership in the ordinary course of business to secure the purchase price of such equipment and inventory and to secure Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership solely for the purpose of acquiring such property; provided that no such Lien shall extend to or cover any property other than (x) the property being acquired and (y) in the case of Indebtedness permitted by Section 5.02(b)(ii)(B)(2), (1) the capital stock of or partnership interest in the Subsidiary of the Borrower that is the borrower of the Indebtedness secured by such Lien (other than any such capital stock or partnership interest that constitutes collateral under the 1990 Loan Documents) and (2) any leases of cellular equipment or facilities (or, with respect to such facilities, leases directly related thereto) acquired with the proceeds of such Indebtedness; (v) Liens incurred in connection with Indebtedness permitted by Section 5.02(b)(ii)(C); provided that such Liens shall extend only to the assets of the Person that has become one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or to the equity interests of the Borrower or one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries in the Person that has become one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries so long as such Person has not become a direct Subsidiary of the Borrower or LIN Cellular Holdings; and (vi) the replacement, extension or renewal of any Lien permitted by clause (iii) above upon or in the same property theretofore subject thereto or the replacement, extension or renewal (without increase of principal amount) of the Indebtedness secured thereby. (b) Indebtedness. (i) Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness other than the Indebtedness set forth below; provided that, prior to and after giving effect to the incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness, the Borrower is in compliance with the provisions of Section 5.03: (A) Indebtedness under this Agreement; (B) Indebtedness under the 1990 Loan Documents; (C) additional unsecured Senior Debt that is on terms (other than interest rate, prepayment premiums, fees and other similar financial terms) no less favorable to the Lenders and the Borrower than the terms of the Indebtedness under the 1990 Loan Documents and this Agreement and that has a weighted average life to maturity at least equal to the then remaining weighted average life of the Indebtedness under the 1990 Loan Documents and this Agreement; and (D) Subordinated Debt; or (ii) Permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness other than, in the case of each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership, the Indebtedness set forth below; provided that, prior to and after giving effect to the incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness, the Borrower is in compliance with the provisions of Section 5.03: (A) Existing Indebtedness and extensions, renewals and refinancings thereof that are on terms (other than interest rate, prepayment premiums, fees and other similar financial terms) no less favorable to the Lenders and such Subsidiary or such Principal Cellular Partnership (as the case may be) than such Existing Indebtedness and that have a weighted average life to maturity at least equal to the then remaining weighted average life of such Existing Indebtedness; (B) (1) Capitalized Leases of and purchase money Indebtedness for equipment and inventory held or acquired by any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership in the ordinary course of business, (2) Indebtedness incurred solely to finance the acquisition of cellular equipment or the construction of facilities to be used in connection with a Cellular Business including Indebtedness incurred in connection with the development of any newly acquired Cellular Business including guaranties thereof; provided that, if such Indebtedness constitutes a guarantee, such guarantee shall not secure an amount of Indebtedness in excess of the Attributable Share of the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness so guaranteed, (3) Indebtedness incurred to finance Severable Equipment in an aggregate outstanding amount for any Cellular System not to exceed the greater of (x) $25,000 in any Cellular System or (y) ten cents for each Pop in such Cellular System and (4) Indebtedness incurred to finance Subscriber Equipment in an aggregate outstanding amount for any Cellular System not to exceed fifty cents for each Pop in such Cellular System; provided that the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness permitted to be outstanding at any one time under this clause (B) shall not exceed $400,000,000; (C) Indebtedness of a Person that was outstanding at the time such Person became one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries (provided that such Indebtedness was not incurred in anticipation of becoming such a Subsidiary) and refinancings thereof on terms (other than interest rate, prepayment premiums, fees and other similar financial terms) no less favorable to the Lenders and such Subsidiary than such outstanding Indebtedness and that have a weighted average life to maturity at least equal to the then remaining weighted average life of such outstanding Indebtedness; (D) Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness described in clause (B)(2) above) attributable to one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or to a Principal Cellular Partnership by reason of its holding or owning a Minority Entity unless the partnership or other agreement pursuant to which such Subsidiary or such Principal Cellular Partnership holds or owns such Minority Entity permits the Borrower, such Subsidiary or such Principal Cellular Partnership to prohibit the incurrence of such Indebtedness; (E) Indebtedness to the Borrower or any other LIN Party; provided that, upon the incurrence of such Indebtedness, the Borrower or such other LIN Party grants to the 1990 Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the 1990 Lenders, a valid, perfected, first priority Lien on such Indebtedness, in form and substance satisfactory to the 1990 Required Lenders; and (F) Indebtedness to another of the Borrower's Subsidiaries; provided that promissory notes evidencing such Indebtedness shall provide by their terms that such Indebtedness shall, if not previously repaid, automatically be cancelled upon any sale or other disposition of the Subsidiary obligor thereunder in connection with the exercise of remedies under the appropriate 1990 Loan Documents. (c) Mergers, Etc. Merge with or into, or consolidate with or into, or transfer or dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to any other Person or permit LIN Cellular Holdings to do any of the foregoing; or permit any of the Borrower's other Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to merge with or into or consolidate with or into, or transfer or dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to, any other Person, unless (i) immediately after giving effect thereto, no event shall have occurred and be continuing that constitutes a Default, (ii) if the surviving entity is not one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or a Principal Cellular Partnership, the disposition of such Subsidiary or Principal Cellular Partnership shall otherwise have been permitted under Section 5.02(d) and (iii) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower showing in sufficient detail so as to permit computation that, immediately after giving effect thereto, the Borrower is in compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 5.03. (d) Sales, Etc. of Assets. Sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any of its assets, including, without limitation, substantially all assets constituting the business of a division, branch or other unit operation, except: (i) dispositions of assets (other than Franchise Interests) in the ordinary course of business; (ii) dispositions of assets in connection with Permitted Asset Swaps; and (iii) dispositions of assets if the Net Cash Proceeds thereof are applied to prepay in full all amounts payable by all LIN Parties under the 1990 Loan Documents and the 1990 Commitments shall have been terminated in accordance with the terms of the 1990 Credit Agreement and, thereafter, to prepay in full all amounts payable by the Borrower hereunder and the Commitments of the Lenders shall have been terminated. (e) Investments in Other Persons. Make, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to make, any Investment in any Person, other than: (i) acquisitions of Cash Equivalents or repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements with any securities dealer with respect to Cash Equivalents that are fully collateralized by Cash Equivalents; (ii) acquisitions of Franchise Interests in MSAs and Geographically Related RSAs, other than Franchise Interests in McCaw, LIN or any of LIN's Subsidiaries that is not also one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries (other than as permitted by clause (iii) below); (iii) the acquisition of the LCH Assets for a purchase price not to exceed the redemption price of the LCH Preferred Stock, so long as (A) the Borrower, following the initial borrowing under the 1990 Credit Agreement and prior to or at the time of such acquisition, shall have received a cash capital contribution to its common equity in an amount equal to at least 50% of the sum of such purchase price plus the amount of any dividends paid with respect to the LCH Preferred Stock permitted by Section 5.02(f)(iv), (B) the ratio of Consolidated Debt to Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for the two fiscal quarters set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate delivered by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent multiplied by two (prior to and after giving effect to such acquisition) is less than 5.5 to 1 and (C) prior to and after giving effect to such acquisition no event shall have occurred and be continuing that constitutes a Default; (iv) Investments in a Subsidiary of the Borrower, a Principal Cellular Partnership or a Minority Entity; provided that (x) any Indebtedness of a Subsidiary of the Borrower or a Principal Cellular Partnership resulting therefrom shall, to the extent it is owed to the Borrower or any other LIN Party, be evidenced by a promissory note that has been pledged to the 1990 Collateral Agent for the benefit of the 1990 Lenders and (y) with respect to an Investment in a Principal Cellular Partnership or a Minority Entity, such Investment does not exceed the Attributable Share of the aggregate Investments in such Partnership or Minority Entity to be made by all other Persons; provided that the limitation set forth in this clause (y) shall not apply to the New York Partnership; (v) loans and advances to employees that in the aggregate do not exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding; (vi) loans and advances in the ordinary course of business that in the aggregate do not exceed $20,000,000 at any time outstanding; (vii) loans or advances to LIN Satellite or one of its wholly owned Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000,000 at any time outstanding; provided that the Indebtedness resulting therefrom shall be evidenced by a promissory note that has been pledged to the 1990 Collateral Agent for the benefit of the 1990 Lenders; and (viii) Investments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $20,000,000 at any time outstanding in Persons that operate Cellular Businesses that are directly related to the business conducted by any Cellular Entity in which the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership owns a Franchise Interest. (f) Dividends, Etc. Declare or pay any dividends on any of its capital stock or purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any of its capital stock or capital stock of LIN or any capital stock of any of LIN's Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower's Subsidiaries) or any warrants, rights or options to acquire such capital stock, now or hereafter outstanding, return any capital to its stockholders as such or make any distribution of assets, capital stock, warrants, rights, options, obligations or securities to its stockholders as such, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any capital stock of the Borrower or capital stock of LIN or any capital stock of LIN's Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower's Subsidiaries) or any warrants, rights or options to acquire such capital stock, except that the Borrower may: (i) declare and pay dividends and distributions payable only in, or purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire such capital stock for value consisting of, common stock of the Borrower or Preferred Stock that complies with the requirements of Section 5.02(n) or warrants, rights or options to purchase such stock of the Borrower; (ii) redeem equity issued as part of the consideration for the acquisition of Franchise Interests (other than the LCH Assets); (iii) declare and pay cash dividends to LCN in an amount not to exceed the amount necessary to enable LIN to repurchase (A) LIN employee common stock and options in an aggregate amount not exceeding, in any fiscal year of LIN, 1/2 of 1% of the then issued and outstanding LIN Shares and in an aggregate amount not exceeding, from the date hereof, 1% of such LIN Shares and (B) LIN Shares resulting from the application of laws and regulations governing foreign ownership in an aggregate amount not to exceed $100,000,000; (iv) beginning with the fiscal year ended December 31, 1995, declare and pay cash dividends to LCN in an amount sufficient to enable LCN to fund dividends actually paid by LCH with respect to the LCH Preferred Stock in accordance with the terms thereof from (x) cumulative Excess Cash Flow for the period from the date of the initial Borrowing through the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994 and (y) 50% of all Excess Cash Flow for 1995 and each succeeding fiscal year of the Borrower; and (v) declare and pay dividends to the extent such dividends are applied to the acquisition of the LCH Assets as permitted by Section 5.02(e)(iii); provided that (A) with respect to dividends or other distributions of cash, such dividends may not be paid with the proceeds of Indebtedness, (B) immediately after giving effect to each such dividend, purchase, repurchase, redemption or distribution, no event shall have occurred and be continuing that constitutes a Default, (C) with respect to purchases, repurchases or redemptions, such purchases, repurchases or redemptions are made at a price that does not exceed the then existing market price, subject, however, to clause (D) below and (D) with respect to repurchases to be made pursuant to employee severance agreements in effect on August 1, 1990 covering in the aggregate not more than 75,000 LIN Shares, such repurchases are made at a price not to exceed the purchase price set forth in such severance agreements. (g) Change in Nature of Business. Permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to engage in any business other than the Cellular Business and any other business owned by one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries on the date hereof or acquired incidental to the acquisition of Cellular Businesses; provided that the foregoing restriction shall not prohibit the Broadcast Borrower from becoming one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries with the consent of the Required Lenders. Notwithstanding the foregoing authorization to acquire incidental businesses, the Borrower, each of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and each Principal Cellular Partnership shall remain at all times primarily engaged in the business of owning and operating Cellular Businesses. (h) Compliance with ERISA. (i) Terminate, or permit any ERISA Affiliate to terminate, any Plan so as to result in any material liability of the Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates as a whole to the PBGC or (ii) permit to continue unremedied any Reportable Event (as defined in Title IV of ERISA), or any other event or condition, that presents a material risk of such a termination by the PBGC of any Plan. (i) Plan Amendments. Amend, modify or change in any manner, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries to amend, modify or change in any manner, any Plan, Multiemployer Plan or Welfare Plan sponsored, maintained or contributed to by the Borrower or the Borrower's Subsidiaries if such amendment, modification or change, together with all other such amendments, modifications and changes, would result in a material increase in the costs and expenses in respect of such Plans, Multiemployer Plans and Welfare Plans of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. (j) Accounting Changes. Make or permit, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to make or permit, any significant change in accounting policies or reporting practices, except as required or permitted by GAAP. (k) Prepayments, Amendments, Etc. of Debt. (i) Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner any Indebtedness of the Borrower or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to do any of the foregoing, other than (A) prepayments with the proceeds of refinancing thereof on terms no less favorable to the Lenders and the Borrower than such Indebtedness of the Borrower and having a weighted average life to maturity at least equal to the then remaining weighted average life of such Indebtedness of the Borrower, (B) prepayments of the 1990 Credit Agreement and (C) prepayments of the Facilities, (ii) make, or permit any of its Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to make, any payment in violation of any subordination terms of any Subordinated Debt or (iii) amend, modify or change in any manner any term or condition of any Indebtedness of the Borrower if such amendment would be adverse to the Lenders. (l) Amendments, Etc. Amend, modify, or change in any manner or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to amend, modify or change in any manner any term or condition of, give any consent, waiver or approval under or waive any default under or breach of any term or condition of its or such Subsidiary's charter or bylaws or such Principal Cellular Partnership's Existing Partnership Agreement or any Material Agreement, except amendments, modifications and waivers that (i) with respect to the Existing Partnership Agreements, do not reduce the partnership interest, voting rights, right to receive distributions or any other material right of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) would not have a material adverse effect on (A) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity, (B) the rights and remedies of the Agents or the Lenders under this Agreement or (C) the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement. (m) Negative Pledge. Enter into or suffer to exist any agreement prohibiting the creation or assumption of any Lien upon any of its property or assets (including, without limitation, any agreement requiring that an equal and ratable Lien be granted to a lender or lenders) other than in favor of the Agents or the Lenders, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to enter into or suffer to exist any agreement prohibiting the creation of Liens upon any of its property or assets (including, without limitation, any agreement requiring that an equal and ratable Lien be granted to a lender or lenders) other than (i) prohibitions against the creation of Liens contained in the 1990 Loan Documents as in effect on the date hereof, (ii) Liens in favor of the Agents or the Lenders, (iii) with respect to such Subsidiary, any existing prohibitions against the creation of Liens and any agreement to which such entity is subject on the date it first becomes one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries, (iv) with respect to Indebtedness permitted by Section 5.02(b)(ii)(B), (v) with respect to any Principal Cellular Partnership, any prohibitions of the creation of Liens set forth in any agreement listed on Schedule IX hereof and (vi) with respect to performance bonds, a prohibition of the creation of Liens that applies solely to the assets to which such performance bonds relate. (n) Preferred Stock. Issue or authorize the issuance of, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries to issue or authorize the issuance of, any Preferred Stock of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, respectively, other than Preferred Stock of the Borrower issued in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 5.02(e) or Preferred Stock of the Borrower that (i) is either not convertible or is convertible only into common stock of the Borrower, (ii) is not accorded voting rights, either before or after conversion or the occurrence of any other event, that would result in a change of control contemplated by Section 6.01(h), 6.01(i), 6.01(j) or 6.01(k) and (iii) is not subject to mandatory redemption earlier than 180 days following the Final Maturity Date. (o) Service Agreements. Agree to directly or indirectly pay or become liable to McCaw, LIN or any of their respective Affiliates (other than the Borrower and any of the Borrower's wholly owned Subsidiaries) for any sum or property for fees for corporate, management or other similar services, or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership to do so, provided that (i) the Borrower may enter into the Approved Services Agreement with LIN and (ii) any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries and any Principal Cellular Partnership may enter into an agreement to pay such fees to a non-wholly owned Subsidiary of the Borrower if such agreement provides that, upon the exercise of remedies by any Agent or any Lender under this Agreement, such agreement may be (x) transferred to the purchaser of the business or Subsidiary to which such agreement relates or (y) terminated without penalty (such determination to be made by such purchaser). (p) Holding Company Status. In the case of the Borrower or LIN Cellular Holdings, own directly or acquire any assets other than (i) shares of capital stock of its respective Subsidiaries, (ii) Investments in Minority Entities permitted under the 1990 Loan Documents, (iii) promissory notes of one of the Borrower's Subsidiaries, a Principal Cellular Partnership or LIN Satellite or one of LIN Satellite's wholly owned Subsidiaries that have been pledged to the 1990 Lenders pursuant to the 1990 Loan Documents and (iv) with respect to the Borrower, immaterial amounts of other assets. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Borrower nor LIN Cellular Holdings shall be a general partner in a partnership. (q) Minority Entities. Permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries to own, hold, acquire or commit to acquire, directly or indirectly, any equity or other ownership interest in any Minority Entity if, after giving effect to such acquisition, the Attributable Share of the Pops of all Minority Entities would be greater than ten percent (10%) of the Attributable Share of all Pops of the Borrower, the Borrower's Subsidiaries, the Principal Cellular Partnerships and each Minority Entity. (r) Deposit Accounts. Maintain or permit any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries to maintain any deposit accounts other than the accounts expressly permitted under the 1990 Credit Agreement. SECTION 5.03. Financial Covenants. So long as any Advance remains unpaid or any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Borrower will, unless the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the requirements of clause (c) below, the Supermajority Lenders) shall otherwise consent in writing: (a) Consolidated Operating Cash Flow to Consolidated Debt Service Ratio. Cause, on the last day of each fiscal quarter, the ratio of Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for the current fiscal quarter and for the fiscal quarter immediately preceding such fiscal quarter, multiplied by two, to Consolidated Debt Service to be equal to or greater than 1.15x. (b) Consolidated Debt to Consolidated Operating Cash Flow Ratio. Maintain at all times a ratio of Consolidated Debt to Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for the two fiscal quarters set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate delivered by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, multiplied by two, (i) for the period from the date of the Initial Borrowing to March 31, 1995, not greater than 6.5x and (ii) at all times thereafter, not greater than 6.0x. (c) Consolidated Debt. Not permit, at any time, Consolidated Debt to exceed $2,000,000,000. ARTICLE VI EVENTS OF DEFAULT SECTION 6.01. Events of Default. If any of the following events ("Events of Default") shall occur and be continuing: (a) The Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of, or interest on, any Advance, or shall fail to make any other payment hereunder, in each case when the same becomes due and payable; or (b) Any representation or warranty made by the Borrower (or any of its officers) under or in connection with this Agreement or any certificate or financial information delivered pursuant thereto shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made; or (c) (i) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in Section 5.01(d), (i), (j)(i) or 5.02(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (k), (l), (m), (n), (o) or (p) or 5.03; or (ii) the Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement if such failure shall remain unremedied for ten days after written notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by any Agent or any Lender; or (d) Any LIN Party, any of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership shall fail to pay any principal of, premium or interest on, or other amounts payable in respect of, Indebtedness with an aggregate outstanding principal amount of $25,000,000 or more (but excluding Indebtedness outstanding hereunder) of such LIN Party, such Subsidiary or such Principal Cellular Partnership (as the case may be), in each case when the same becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument relating to such Indebtedness; or any other event shall occur or condition shall exist under any agreement or instrument relating to any such Indebtedness and shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such agreement or instrument, if the effect of such failure, event or condition is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Indebtedness or any such Indebtedness shall be declared to be due and payable or required to be prepaid or redeemed (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment or redemption) purchased or defeased, or an offer to prepay, redeem, purchase or defease such Indebtedness shall be required to be made, in each case prior to the stated maturity thereof; or (e) McCaw, MMM Holdings, LIN, the Borrower, any of LIN's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership shall generally not pay its debts as such debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or any proceeding shall be instituted by or against McCaw, MMM Holdings, LIN, the Borrower, any of LIN's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief, or composition of it or its debt under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a receiver, trustee, or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of its property and, in the case of any proceeding instituted against it (but not instituted by it) that is being diligently contested by in good faith, such proceeding shall remain undismissed or unstayed for a period of 45 days; or McCaw, MMM Holdings, LIN, the Borrower, any of LIN's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership shall take any corporate or partnership action (as the case may be) to authorize any of the actions set forth above in this subsection (e); provided that, in the case of any of the foregoing events with respect to McCaw, MMM Holdings or any of LIN's Subsidiaries (other than LCH, any LIN Party or any of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries), the Required Lenders shall have determined that such event described above is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on (i) the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity, (ii) the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement or (iii) the rights and remedies of the Agents or the Lenders under this Agreement; or (f) Any judgments or orders for the payment of money in the aggregate equal to or in excess of $5,000,000 shall be rendered against any LIN Party, any of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership and there shall be any period of 60 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect; or (g) Any nonmonetary judgment or order shall be rendered against any LIN Party, any of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership that could have a material adverse effect on (i) the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower, the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity, (ii) the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement or (iii) the rights and remedies of the Agents or the Lenders under this Agreement, and there shall be any period of ten consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect; or (h) At any time before the consummation of the Merger, Craig O. McCaw or a Designated Party, and at any time after the consummation of the Merger, AT&T, shall fail to have the right to cause the election of his or its nominees to a majority of the directorships of the Board of Directors of McCaw; or (i) (i) At any time before the consummation of the Merger, the McCaw Family shall at any time for any reason cease to be the legal and beneficial owner of at least 20,000,000 Class B Shares (or such other number of Class B Shares as may be determined after adjustment to give effect to increases or decreases in the number of Class B Shares, including, without limitation, increases or decreases resulting from stock dividends, stock splits, reclassifications or combinations effected with respect to such Class B Shares, such adjustments to be calculated in a manner approved by the Managing Agents) or (ii) at any time after the consummation of the Merger, AT&T shall for any reason cease to have Economic Ownership of Voting Stock representing in the aggregate at least 51% of the combined voting power of all Voting Stock of McCaw; or (j) (i) At any time before the consummation of the Merger, McCaw shall fail to have the right to cause the election of its nominees to a majority of the directorships of the Board of Directors of LIN or (ii) at any time after the consummation of the Merger, McCaw or AT&T shall fail to have the right to cause the election of its nominees to a majority of the directorships of the Board of Directors of LIN; or (k) LIN shall fail to own directly or indirectly at least a majority of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Borrower; or (l) Any ERISA Event shall have occurred with respect to a Plan of any LIN Party and, 30 days after notice thereof shall have been given to such LIN Party by the Administrative Agent, (i) such ERISA Event shall still exist and (ii) the sum (determined as of the date of occurrence of such ERISA Event) of the Insufficiency of such Plan and the Insufficiency of any and all other Plans of any LIN Party with respect to which an ERISA Event shall have occurred and then exist (or, in the case of a Plan with respect to which a termination described in clauses (c) through (f) of the definition of ERISA Event shall have occurred and then exist, the liability related thereto is equal to or greater than $25,000,000; or (m) Any LIN Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates shall have been notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that it has incurred Withdrawal Liability to such Multiemployer Plan in an amount that, when aggregated with all other amounts required to be paid to MultiEmployer Plans by the LIN Parties and their ERISA Affiliates as Withdrawal Liabilities (determined as of the date of such notification), exceeds $25,000,000 and any part of such Withdrawal Liability shall not have been paid when the same becomes due and payable; or (n) Any LIN Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates shall have been notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that such Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or is being terminated, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, if as a result of such reorganization or termination the aggregate annual contributions of the LIN Parties and their ERISA Affiliates to all Multiemployer Plans that are then in reorganization or being terminated have been or will be increased over the amounts contributed to such Multiemployer Plans for the plan year of each such Multiemployer Plan immediately preceding the plan year in which such reorganization or termination occurs by an amount exceeding $25,000,000; or (o) Any LIN Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates shall have committed a failure described in Section 302(f)(1) of ERISA and the amount determined under Section 302(f)(3) of ERISA is equal to or greater than $25,000,000; or (p) There shall occur any material adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of the Borrower or the New York Partnership, the Los Angeles Partnership or any other Material Entity; or (q) The Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership or, with respect to clauses (iv) and (v) below, LIN or LCN shall become subject to restrictions (whether through a covenant, a provision entitling any party to accelerate the maturity of any obligation or otherwise) under (x) in the case of the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership, an agreement related to any Indebtedness of, or with shareholders of, McCaw, LIN or any of their respective Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) (any such agreement being a "Borrower Restrictive Agreement") or (y) in the case of LIN or LCN, an agreement related to any Indebtedness of, or with shareholders of, McCaw or MMM Holdings, Inc. (any such agreement being a "Parent Restrictive Agreement"; all such Agreements, together with the Borrower Restrictive Agreements, being the "Restrictive Agreements"), unless in any such case such Restrictive Agreements permits (or does not prohibit) the Borrower, the Borrower's Subsidiaries and the Principal Cellular Partnerships and, with respect to clauses (iv) and (v) below, LIN and LCN, without the need to obtain the consent of any party to any such Restrictive Agreement: (i) to prepay, redeem, repurchase, defease, extend, renew or refinance its Indebtedness and to amend, modify or waive any provision of any agreement related to such Indebtedness (including, without limitation, amendments that would increase the rate of interest payable under such agreement or require the payment of fees or other amounts in connection therewith); (ii) to pay dividends to the Borrower; (iii) to incur Indebtedness for working capital and other similar corporate purposes, including, without limitation, for capital expenditures, operations and debt service and costs related thereto (such Indebtedness being the "Additional Working Capital Debt"); (iv) to grant Liens on its assets in connection with any Additional Working Capital Debt or the Borrower's, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries' or any Principal Cellular Partnership's Indebtedness, including, without limitation, the Facilities and any extensions, renewals or refinancings thereof; (v) to provide guarantees or other similar undertakings (including, without limitation, undertakings of the types referred to in clauses (h) or (i) of the definition of "Indebtedness") with respect to any Additional Working Capital Debt or the Borrower's, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries' or any Principal Cellular Partnership's Indebtedness, including, without limitation, the facilities and any extensions, renewals or refinancings thereof; and (vi) to sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any assets to repay the Borrower's, such Subsidiary's or such Principal Cellular Partnership's Indebtedness or to satisfy such Person's working capital and other cash needs; provided that a Borrower Restrictive Agreement may require that such Person receive an opinion of an investment banker of national reputation that the amount received upon any such disposition of stock or capital assets represents fair value under the circumstances; or (r) Prior to January 1, 1994, the Borrower shall cease to be a member of an "affiliated group" (within the meaning of Section 1504(a)(i) of the Code) of which LIN is the common parent unless at the time the Borrower ceases to be a member of such group, the Borrower receives a cash capital contribution in an amount equal to the present value of the expected net benefit, if any, of the remaining net operating losses of LIN that have been allocated to the Borrower under the Tax Sharing Agreement, such value to be determined in a manner approved by the Managing Agents; or (s) LIN shall fail to make any payment under the Tax Sharing Agreement when the same becomes due and payable, or LIN shall fail to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in the Tax Sharing Agreement if such failure shall remain unremedied for ten days after written notice thereof shall have been given to LIN by any Agent or any Lender; then, and in any such event, the Administrative Agent (i) shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, declare the obligation of each Lender to make Advances to be terminated, whereupon the same shall forthwith terminate, and (ii) shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Advances and all interest thereon and all amounts hereunder to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon the Advances, all such interest and all such amounts shall become and be forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or further notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower; provided, however, that in the event of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to any LIN Party under the Federal Bankruptcy Code, (A) the obligation of each Lender to make Advances shall automatically be terminated and (B) the Advances, all such interest and all such amounts shall automatically become and be due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower. ARTICLE VII THE AGENTS SECTION 7.01. Authorization and Action. Each Lender hereby appoints and authorizes each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the Indebtedness resulting from the Advances), none of the Agents shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the Required Lenders, and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders; provided, however, that none of the Agents shall be required to take any action that exposes any Agent to personal liability or that is contrary to this Agreement or applicable law. The Administrative Agent agrees to give to each Lender prompt notice of each notice given to it by the Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. SECTION 7.02. Agents' Reliance, Etc. Neither the Agents nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them, under or in connection with this Agreement, except for its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without limitation of the generality of the foregoing, each Agent: (i) may treat the Lender that made any Advance as the holder of the Indebtedness resulting therefrom until the Administrative Agent receives and accepts an Assignment and Acceptance entered into by such Lender, as assignor, and an Eligible Assignee, as assignee, as provided in Section 8.07; (ii) may consult with legal counsel (including counsel for any LIN Party), independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts; (iii) makes no warranty or representation to any Lender and shall not be responsible to any Lender for any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement; (iv) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement on the part of the Borrower or to inspect the property (including the books and records) of any LIN Party; (v) shall not be responsible to any Lender for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; and (vi) shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by telegram, telecopy, or telex) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or parties. SECTION 7.03. TD (Texas), Toronto-Dominion and Scotiabank and Affiliates. With respect to its Commitments and the Advances made by it, each of TD (Texas), Toronto-Dominion and Scotiabank shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not a Managing Agent or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be); and the term "Lender" or "Lenders" shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include each of TD (Texas), Toronto-Dominion and Scotiabank in its individual capacity. Each of TD (Texas), Toronto-Dominion and Scotiabank and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as trustee under indentures of, accept investment banking engagements from and generally engage in any kind of business with, any LIN Party, any of such LIN Party's Subsidiaries and any Person who may do business with or own securities of any LIN Party or any such Subsidiary, all as if each of TD (Texas), Toronto-Dominion and Scotiabank were not a Managing Agent or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders. SECTION 7.04. Lender Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Agents or any other Lender and based on the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agents or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement. SECTION 7.05. Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify each Agent (to the extent not promptly reimbursed by the Borrower pursuant to another provision of this Agreement), ratably according to the respective principal amounts of the Advances then owing to each such Lender (or if no Advances are at the time outstanding or if any Advances are then owing to Persons that are not Lenders, ratably according to the respective amounts of their Commitments), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Agent (as the case may be) in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any action taken or omitted by such Agent under this Agreement; provided that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from such Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender agrees to reimburse each Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any costs and expenses payable by the Borrower under Section 8.04 (other than any costs and expenses payable to the financial institution acting as such Agent in its capacity as a Lender), to the extent that such Agent is not promptly reimbursed for such costs and expenses by the Borrower. SECTION 7.06. Successor Administrative Agent; Successor Managing Agents. (a) The Administrative Agent may resign as to either or both of the Facilities at any time by giving written notice thereof to each of the Lenders and the Borrower and may be removed as to both of the Facilities at any time with or without cause by the Required Lenders. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Administrative Agent (as to such of the Facilities as to which the Administrative Agent has resigned or been removed). If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent's giving of notice of resignation or the Required Lenders' removal of the retiring Administrative Agent, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which shall be a commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or of any state thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent as to both of the Facilities, such successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent as to one of the Facilities, such successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent as to such Facility, other than, with respect to funds transfers and other similar aspects of the administration of the Borrowings under such Facility and payments by Borrower in respect of such Facility, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement as to such Facility, other than as aforesaid. After any retiring Administrative Agent's resignation or removal hereunder as Administrative Agent as to both of the Facilities, the provisions of this Article VII shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent as to either Facility under this Agreement. (b) Any Managing Agent may resign as to either or both of the Facilities at any time by giving written notice thereof to each of the Lenders and the Borrower and may be removed as to both of the Facilities at any time with or without cause by the Required Lenders. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Managing Agent (as to such of the Facilities as to which the Managing Agent has resigned or been removed). If, at any time, a Managing Agent has been removed or has delivered a notice of resignation and has not been replaced within 30 days after the first date on which such circumstance exists, then the remaining Managing Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Managing Agent. Each such successor Managing Agent shall be a commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or of any state thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as a Managing Agent hereunder by a successor Managing Agent as to both of the Facilities, such successor Managing Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with both the rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the remaining Managing Agent and the retiring Managing Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as a Managing Agent hereunder by a successor Managing Agent as to one of the Facilities, such successor Managing Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Managing Agent as to such Facility, and the retiring Managing Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement as to such Facility. After any retiring Managing Agent's resignation or removal hereunder as a Managing Agent as to both of the Facilities, the provisions of this Article VII shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was a Managing Agent as to either Facility under this Agreement. ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 8.01. Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Required Lenders, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that (a) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all the Lenders, do any of the following: (i) waive any of the conditions set forth in Section 3.01 or, in the case of the initial Borrowing, Section 3.02 or 3.03, (ii) change the percentage of the Commitments or of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances, or the number of Lenders that shall be required for the Lenders or any of them to take action hereunder, including, without limitation, any action to be taken by the Required Lenders or the Supermajority Lenders under Section 5.03 or (iii) amend this Section 8.01, and (b) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Required Lenders and each Lender that has a Commitment under the Facility affected thereby, (i) increase the Commitments of such Lender or subject such Lender to any additional obligations, (ii) reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Advances payable to such Lender or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder to such Lender, (iii) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances payable hereunder to such Lender or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder to such Lender or (iv) change the order of application of any prepayment set forth in Section 2.07 or reduction of Commitments set forth in Section 2.04 in any manner that materially affects such Lender; provided further that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent or each Managing Agent (as the case may be) in addition to the Lenders required above to take such action, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent or the Managing Agents (as the case may be) under this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment of any provision of this Agreement shall, unless in writing and signed by the Borrower in addition to the Lenders and Agents required above to take such action, affect the rights or the duties of the Borrower under this Agreement. SECTION 8.02. Notices, Etc. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing (including telegraphic, telecopy or telex communications) and telegraphed, telecopied, telexed, mailed or delivered, if to the Borrower, at its address at 5400 Carillon Point, Kirkland, Washington 98033, Attention: Donald Guthrie, Senior Vice President, Finance, telecopy number: (206) 828-1900, with a copy to LIN Cellular Network, Inc., 1150 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20036, Attention: Andrew A. Quartner, Vice President-Law, telecopy number: (212) 223-9095; if to any Lender that is a signatory hereto, at its Domestic Lending Office specified opposite its name in Schedule I hereto; if to any other Lender, at its Domestic Lending Office specified in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender; if to the Administrative Agent, at its address at 909 Fannin, Suite 1700, Houston, Texas 77010, Attention: Manager, Agency, with a copy to The Toronto-Dominion Bank, 31 West 52nd Street, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Managing Director, Communications Finance; and if to any Managing Agent, at its Domestic Lending Office specified opposite its name in Schedule I hereto or, as to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties and, as to each other party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. All such notices and communications shall, when telegraphed, telecopied or telexed, be effective when delivered to the telegraph company, transmitted by telecopier, confirmed by telex answerback or shall be effective five days after being deposited in the mails, respectively, except that notices and communications to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Article II, III or VII and any Compliance Certificate shall not be effective until received by the Administrative Agent. SECTION 8.03. No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of any Lender or the Agents to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law. SECTION 8.04. Costs; Expenses. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay on demand: (i) all costs and expenses of the Agents in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification and amendment of this Agreement, including, without limitation, (A) all due diligence, transportation, computer, duplication, appraisal, audit, consultant, search, filing and recording fees and expenses and (B) the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Agents with respect thereto and with respect to advising any of the Agents as to their respective rights and responsibilities, or the perfection, protection or preservation of rights or interests, under this Agreement and with respect to negotiations with the Borrower regarding any Default or any events or circumstances that may give rise to a Default and (ii) all costs and expenses of the Agents and the Lenders in connection with the enforcement of this Agreement whether in any action, suit or litigation, any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar proceeding affecting creditors' rights generally or otherwise (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for any Agent or any Lender with respect thereto). (b) The Borrower agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Agent and each Lender and each of their respective Affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors (each, an "Indemnified Party") from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Lenders as a group; provided that any Lender or group of Lenders that has determined in good faith that due to potential conflicts of interest such Lender or group of Lenders cannot be adequately represented by such counsel may retain separate counsel to represent such Lender or group of Lenders, such representation to be limited, to the extent practicable, to the issues to which such potential conflict relates) that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or by reason of, or in connection with the preparation for a defense of, any investigation, litigation or proceeding arising out of, related to or in connection with any acquisition or proposed acquisition by the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or Affiliates of all or any part of the stock or substantially all the assets of any Person (including, without limitation, the Acquisitions) and any of the other transactions contemplated hereby, whether or not an Indemnified Party is a party thereto and whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, except to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability or expense is found in a final, nonappealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Party's gross negligence or willful misconduct. (c) If any payment of principal of, or Conversion of, any LIBO Rate Advance or Adjusted CD Rate Advance is made by the Borrower to or for the account of a Lender other than on the last day of the Interest Period for such Advance, as a result of a payment pursuant to Section 2.07, acceleration of the maturity of the Advances pursuant to Section 6.01 or for any other reason, or by the Borrower or an Eligible Assignee to a Lender other than on the last day of the Interest Period for such Advance if a Lender is required to assign its rights and obligations under this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.07 as a result of a demand by the Borrower pursuant to Section 8.07(a), the Borrower shall, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender any amounts required to compensate such Lender for any additional losses, costs or expenses that it may reasonably incur as a result of such payment or Conversion, including, without limitation, any loss (including loss of anticipated profits), cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by any Lender to fund or maintain such Advance. (d) If the Borrower fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it under this Agreement, including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel and indemnities, such amount may be paid on behalf of the Borrower by any Agent or any Lender, in its sole discretion. Immediately upon the making of each such payment, such Agent or such Lender shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each other Lender, and each other Lender shall be deemed to have purchased and received from such Agent or such Lender, in each case irrevocably and without any further action by any party, an undivided interest and participation in such payment and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement in respect thereof in an amount equal to the product of (x) a fraction the numerator of which is the amount of the Commitments of such Lender and the denominator of which is the sum of the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term Facility times (y) the amount of such payment. Any such payment by such Agent or any Lender shall constitute for all purposes of this Agreement the making by such Agent or such Lender of an Advance, which shall be a Base Rate Advance, in the amount of such payment (but without any requirement for compliance with the conditions set forth in Article III). In the event that such payment is not reimbursed by the Borrower by 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after such payment, such Agent or such Lender shall promptly notify the Agent and each other Lender. Each such Lender shall, notwithstanding the then unused amount of its Commitments or any termination thereof, on the first Business Day following such notification, make an Advance, which shall be a Base Rate Advance, in an amount equal to the amount of its participation in such payment for application to reimburse such Agent or Lender (but without any requirement for compliance with the applicable conditions set forth in Article III) and shall make available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent for its own account or for the account of such other Agent or such Lender, by deposit to the Administrative Agent's Account, in same day funds, the amount of such Advance. If and to the extent that any Lender shall not have so made the amount of such Advance available to the Administrative Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date of demand by the Administrative Agent or such Agent or such Lender until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable at such time under Section 2.06(d) to Base Rate Advances and (ii) in the case of such Agent or such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate. If such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent such amount, such amount so paid shall constitute such Lender's Advance for purposes of this Agreement. SECTION 8.05. Right of Set-off. Upon (a) the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default and (b) the making of the request or the granting of the consent specified by Section 6.01 to authorize the Administrative Agent to declare the Advances due and payable pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, each Lender is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such Lender or any branch, agency, Subsidiary or Affiliate of such Lender to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any and all of the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under or in respect of this Agreement, irrespective of whether such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower after any such set-off and application made by such Lender; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of each Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including, without limitation, other rights of set-off) that such Lender may have. SECTION 8.06. Binding Effect; Survival. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by each Lender that such Lender has executed it and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the Agents and each Lender and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Lenders. Without prejudice to the survival of the other agreements of the Borrower hereunder, the agreements of the Borrower contained in Sections 2.10, 2.12 and 8.04 shall survive the payment in full of the obligations of the Borrower hereunder. SECTION 8.07. Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may, and, if demanded by the Borrower (following a demand by such Lender pursuant to Section 2.10 or 2.12, or notice by such Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b)(ii) or within 60 days after such Lender's failure to grant a consent or waiver, or to execute an amendment, which consent, waiver or amendment was requested by the Borrower in writing) upon at least ten Business Days' notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, shall promptly, assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitments and the Advances owing to it); provided, however, that (i) each such Assignment shall be of a uniform, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under or in respect of one or more of the Facilities, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 unless the Borrower shall otherwise consent in writing, (iii) with respect to any such assignment (other than an assignment made as a result of a demand by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 8.07(a)) by a Lender that is an original signatory hereto, such Lender shall, unless the Borrower shall otherwise consent in writing, retain a Commitment under both Facilities that is equal to or greater than $5,000,000, (iv) each such assignment made as a result of a demand by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 8.07(a): (A) shall be arranged by the Borrower after consultation with the Administrative Agent, (B) shall be either an assignment of all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement or an assignment of a portion of such rights and obligations made concurrently with another such assignment or other such assignments that together cover all of the rights and obligations of the assigning Lender under this Agreement, except that the provisions of Sections 2.10, 2.12 and 8.04 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was a Lender under this Agreement, and (C) if demanded by the Borrower due to the failure of such Lender to grant a consent or waiver or to execute an amendment requested by the Borrower, which consent, waiver or amendment has not been approved by the Required Lenders, all the rights and obligations of each other Lender that has failed to grant such consent or waiver or execute such amendment shall have been assigned to one or more Lenders and/or Eligible Assignees who shall have granted such consent or waiver or executed such amendment (or, in the case of an Eligible Assignee that is not a Lender at such time, shall have agreed to grant such consent or waiver or to execute such amendment), (v) no Lender shall be obligated to make any such assignment as a result of a demand by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 8.07(a) unless and until such Lender shall have received one or more payments from either the Borrower or one or more Eligible Assignees in an aggregate amount at least equal to the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Advances owing to such Lender, together with accrued interest thereon to the date of payment of such principal amount and all other amounts payable to such Lender under the Loan Documents and (vi) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of $2,500.00 (which, (a) in the case of any assignment made as a result of a demand by the Borrower under this Section 8.07(a), shall be payable by the Borrower and (b) shall not be payable in the case of any assignment by a Lender to an Affiliate thereof). Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (B) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto). (b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of any LIN Party, any of Subsidiary of such LIN Party or any Principal Cellular Partnership or the performance or observance by any LIN Party or any of Subsidiary of such LIN Party's of any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee agrees that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agents, such assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Agents to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement as are delegated to the Agents by the terms hereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders and the Commitment under each Facility of, and principal amount of the Advances owing under each Facility to, each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in the form of Exhibit A hereto with such immaterial changes as are acceptable to the Administrative Agent, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. (e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more financial institutions or other entities (other than any entity that owns or operates a Cellular Business or any Affiliate thereof) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitments and the Advances owing to it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitments) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) the Borrower, the Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, (iv) no participant shall have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, or any consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Advances, or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such participation, and (v) each participant shall represent to such Lender that it is not an entity that owns or operates a Cellular Business or an Affiliate thereof. (f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant any Confidential Information; provided, however, that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the confidentiality of such Confidential Information as set forth in Section 8.10. (g) Nothwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it) in favor of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. SECTION 8.08. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. SECTION 8.09. Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. SECTION 8.10. Confidentiality. The Agents and the Lenders agree that they will not disclose Confidential Information (as defined below) without the prior consent of the Borrower (other than to their directors, employees, auditors or counsel); provided that any Agent and any Lender is authorized to make such disclosure of Confidential Information without any consent of the Borrower (a) as may be required by law (such as pursuant to any subpoena or civil investigative demand) and as may be requested or required by any state or federal authority, examiner, regulatory body or agency having jurisdiction over any Agent or any Lender and (b) as permitted by Section 8.07(f). Any Agent or Lender authorized to disclose Confidential Information pursuant to the preceding proviso shall use its best efforts to give the Borrower prior notice of such disclosure (other than with respect to any disclosure requested or required by any state or federal authority, examiner, regulatory body or agency having jurisdiction over such Agent or Lender). The term "Confidential Information" means any information delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower in connection with this Agreement (whether before or after the date hereof), including, without limitation, Section 5.01(j), that relates to the business, operations or financial condition of LIN or any of LIN's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership or any competitor of LIN or any of LIN's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership or a proposed acquisition by the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any Principal Cellular Partnership, other than information (a) that is, or generally becomes, available to the public, (b) that was available to any Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to its disclosure to such Agent or such Lender (as the case may be) by the Borrower or any Affiliate or (c) that becomes available to any Agent or any Lender from a Person or other source that is not, to the best knowledge of such Agent or such Lender (as the case may be), otherwise bound by a confidentiality obligation to the Borrower. SECTION 8.11. Waiver of Jury Trial. Each of the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders hereby irrevocably waives all right to trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim (whether based upon contract, tort or otherwise) arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the Advances or the action of any Agent or any Lender in the negotiation, administration, performance or enforcement thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written. LIN CELLULAR NETWORK, INC. By Title: Administrative Agent TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS), INC. as Administrative Agent By Title: Managing Agents THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK as Managing Agent By Title: THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA as Managing Agent By Title: Lenders BANK OF MONTREAL By________________________________ Title: THE BANK OF NEW YORK By Title: THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA By Title: BARCLAYS BANK PLC By Title: CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE By Title: DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LOS ANGELES BRANCH AND/OR CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH By Title: By Title: NATIONSBANK OF TEXAS, N.A. By Title: PNC BANK By Title: SOCIETE GENERALE By Title: THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK By Title: SCHEDULE III Terms of Subordination DEFINITION ARTICLE "Bank Agent" means the agent or other representative designated as the principal representative of the lenders under a Bank Credit Agreement for purposes of administration of such Bank Credit Agreement. "Bank Credit Agreement" means (a) the Credit Agreement dated as of June 15, 1994 among LIN Cellular Network, Inc., the banks and financial institutions parties thereto (the "Lenders"), Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc., as administrative agent for the Lenders, and The Toronto-Dominion Bank and The Bank of Nova Scotia, as managing agents for the Lenders, as such Credit Agreement may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, and (b) following payment in full of all amounts outstanding under such Credit Agreement and termination of all commitments to lend thereunder, each credit or loan agreement refinancing, refunding or replacing, in whole or in part, such Credit Agreement. "Bank Loan Documents" means each Bank Credit Agreement, all agreements entered into to secure, guarantee or support obligations under or in respect of such Bank Credit Agreement, and each other agreement, document or instrument delivered pursuant to or in respect of such Bank Credit Agreement or any such agreement to secure, guarantee or support, as any of the foregoing may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (including any refinancings, refundings, or replacements thereof). "Cash Equivalents" means (a) obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States or any agency thereof; (b) insured certificates of deposit of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or any other country that is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or any political subdivision of such country and having combined capital and surplus of at least $1 billion; or (c) commercial paper with a rating at the time of receipt thereof by a holder or owner of Senior Indebtedness of at least "Prime-1" by Moody's Investors Services, Inc. or "A-1" by Standard & Poor's Corporation. "Hedging Agreement" means an interest rate swap agreement or any other similar agreement designed to hedge against fluctuations in interest rates. "Requisite Holder" means (a) any holder or holders of (or any representative thereof, including a trustee under an indenture governing Senior Indebtedness) at least (i) $200 million aggregate outstanding principal amount of Senior Indebtedness or (ii) 40% of the outstanding principal amount of all Senior Indebtedness or (b) the Bank Agent. "Senior Indebtedness" means all obligations of the Company now or hereafter existing under or in respect of the following, whether for principal, premium, if any, interest (including, without limitation, interest following the filing of a petition initiating any proceeding referred to in Section .02, whether or not such interest accrues after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), fees, expenses, indemnities or otherwise: (i) the Bank Loan Documents, (ii) Hedging Agreements[, (iii) list any other specified Senior Indebtedness] and ( ) all other Indebtedness (present or future) created, incurred or assumed by the Company (and all amendments, supplements, renewals, extensions or refundings thereof), unless, in the case of any of clauses (i), (ii)[, (iii)] and ( ) above, the instrument under or in respect of which any such obligation or Indebtedness is created, incurred or assumed expressly provides that such obligation or Indebtedness is not senior in right of payment to the Securities, but Senior Indebtedness does not include (a) Indebtedness of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates (other than an Affiliate which controls, directly or indirectly, the Company, or a Subsidiary of such an Affiliate, unless the instrument under which any such Indebtedness is created, incurred or assumed expressly provides that such Indebtedness is not senior in right of payment to the Securities), (b) any Indebtedness or liability for compensation to employees of the Company, or incurred for the purchase of goods or materials or for services obtained in the ordinary course of business and which constitutes a trade payable and (c) [list any specified pari passu or subordinated Indebtedness] which shall rank equally with [or subordinated to] the Securities. "Subordinated Indebtedness" means all obligations of the Company in respect of Indebtedness now or hereafter existing under this Indenture and the Securities (whether created directly or acquired by assignment or otherwise), whether for principal, premium, if any, interest, fees, expenses, indemnities or other amounts payable in respect thereof, including, without limitation, amounts payable to acquire any Securities or on account of the redemption or repurchase provisions of this Indenture or the Securities; provided that Subordinated Indebtedness does not include any fees, indemnities and other amounts payable to the Trustee for its own account pursuant to this Indenture. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES ARTICLE Include as a limitation on the effectiveness of a vote to accelerate the Securities and on other remedies with respect to the Securities: provided, however, that until all Senior Indebtedness under or in respect of the Bank Loan Documents has been paid in full, (i) upon a declaration of acceleration, such principal and accrued interest shall be due and payable upon the first to occur of an acceleration under the Bank Credit Agreement or the day which is five Business Days after the giving to the Company and the Bank Agent of such written notice if such Event of Default is continuing on such day and (ii) the Trustee or any holder or owner of Subordinated Indebtedness may pursue any remedy available hereunder or at law or in equity only upon or after the day that is five Business Days after the giving to the Company and the Bank Agent written notice, at a time at which it is otherwise entitled to pursue such remedy, of its intention to do so, specifying such remedy. SUBORDINATION ARTICLE Section .01. Agreement to Subordinate. The Company agrees, and each Securityholder by accepting a Security agrees, that the Subordinated Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner provided in this Article, to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, that the subordination is for the benefit of the holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness and that such holders and owners are made obligees hereunder and any one or more of them may enforce the provisions of this Article directly. For purposes of this Indenture, unless a holder or owner of Senior Indebtedness agrees otherwise in writing at the time or unless otherwise provided in the instrument under which any Senior Indebtedness is created, incurred or assumed (which writing or instrument must specifically refer to this Section), no Senior Indebtedness shall be deemed to have been paid in full until the holders or owners of such Senior Indebtedness shall have received payment in full of such Senior Indebtedness in cash or Cash Equivalents. Section .02. Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy. Upon any payment or distribution to creditors of the Company in a liquidation or dissolution of the Company or in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding relating to the Company or its property or in an assignment for the benefit of creditors or any marshalling of the assets and liabilities of the Company: (1) holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness before any payment may be made under or in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness; and (2) until all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full, any payment of all or any of the Subordinated Indebtedness, and any payment or distribution of any kind (whether in cash, property or securities) that otherwise would be payable or deliverable upon or with respect to the Subordinated Indebtedness in any such case, proceeding, assignment, marshalling or otherwise shall be paid or delivered directly to the Bank Agent and to the holders or owners of the other Senior Indebtedness or their representatives, ratably in accordance with the outstanding amount of Senior Indebtedness under or in respect of the Bank Loan Documents and such other Senior Indebtedness, respectively, for application (in the case of cash or Cash Equivalents) to, or as collateral (in the case of non-cash property or securities other than Cash Equivalents) for, the payment or prepayment of the Senior Indebtedness until the Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full. Section .03. Default on Senior Indebtedness. Upon the final maturity of any Senior Indebtedness by lapse of time, acceleration or otherwise, all such Senior Indebtedness shall first be paid in full before any payment or distribution may be made under or in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness. No payment or distribution under or in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness (including payments pursuant to [mandatory redemption, sinking fund or other similar provisions], except payments made in Securities acquired by the Company before the maturity of such Senior Indebtedness) may be made during any period in which: (i) a default in the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on Senior Indebtedness occurs and is continuing; or (ii) the Company receives a notice from any Requisite Holder of Senior Indebtedness of a default, other than a payment default, under any Senior Indebtedness permitting an acceleration thereof or which would permit an acceleration thereof with the giving of notice or the passage of time or both and such default is continuing and 180 days (or such longer period in the event of certain circumstances described below) have not passed since the date of receipt of such notice (such date being the "Initial Date"). The Company may resume payments on and distributions in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness when: (1) the default is cured or waived, or (2) in the case of a default referred to in clause (ii) above, 180 days (or such longer period as described below) have passed since the Initial Date, or each of the Requisite Holders of Senior Indebtedness which have given notices commencing such 180-day period rescind such notices, if this Article otherwise permits the payment or distribution at the time of such payment or distribution. Only one such 180-day period during which the Company may not make any payment or distribution in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness may commence within any 360 consecutive days; provided that following the delivery of a notice by any Requisite Holder commencing such a 180-day period, any other Requisite Holder may send a similar notice commencing such a 180-day period as of the same Initial Date, each of which notices may only be rescinded by the Requisite Holder which gave it; and provided further that if, after the commencement of any such 180-day period or of any subsequent 180-day period commenced pursuant to this further proviso (such period, whether the initial such period or a subsequent such period, being herein called the "Existing Period"), either (x) there shall be a New Default (as defined below) or (y) there shall be material deterioration (in the good faith judgment of any Requisite Holder of Senior Indebtedness which gave a notice commencing such 180-day period) in the condition, operations or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, compared to their respective condition, operations or prospects at the time of commencement of the Existing Period, this sentence shall not prevent any Requisite Holder of Senior Indebtedness which gave a notice commencing such 180-day period (by written notice to the Trustee, which notice shall specify the facts and circumstances giving rise to such notice) from commencing a subsequent 180-day period. "New Default" means any default (including an unmatured event of default) under Senior Indebtedness which (1) was not a default which existed at the time of commencement of the Existing Period and of which the Requisite Holder of Senior Indebtedness which gave the notice on the Initial Date had actual knowledge at such time, (2) was not a default which arose solely out of facts or circumstances in existence at the time of commencement of the Existing Period and of which facts and circumstances the Requisite Holder of Senior Indebtedness which gave the notice on the Initial Date had actual knowledge at such time, and (3) has not been cured or waived. Section .04. Acceleration of Securities. If payment of the Securities is accelerated because of an Event of Default, the Company shall promptly notify the holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness of the acceleration. A copy of such notice shall be given to the Trustee. Nothing contained in this Article will limit the right of the Trustee or the Securityholders to take any action to accelerate the maturity of the Securities pursuant to Section ___ or to pursue, pursuant to Section __, any rights or remedies hereunder against the Company; provided that all Senior Indebtedness then or thereafter due or declared to be due shall first be paid in full before any payment or distribution may be made under or in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness. Section .05. When Distribution Must Be Paid Over. If a payment or distribution is made to the Trustee or any holder or owner of Subordinated Indebtedness that because of this Article should not have been made to it, the Trustee or such holder or owner of Subordinated Indebtedness who receives the payment or distribution shall hold it in trust for the benefit of, and shall forthwith pay it over to, the Bank Agent and to the holders or owners of the other Senior Indebtedness or their representatives, ratably in accordance with the outstanding amount of Senior Indebtedness under or in respect of the Bank Loan Documents and such other Senior Indebtedness, respectively, for application (in the case of cash or Cash Equivalents) to, or to be held as collateral (in the case of non-cash property or securities other than Cash Equivalents) for, the payment or prepayment in full of all Senior Indebtedness after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness. With respect to the holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes to perform only such obligations on the part of the Trustee as are specifically set forth in this Article, and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders or owners of Senior Indebtedness shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders or owners of Senior Indebtedness, and shall not be liable to any such holders or owners if the Trustee shall pay over or distribute to or on behalf of Securityholders or the Company or any other person money or assets to which any holders or owners of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article, except if such payment is made as a result of the willful misconduct or negligence of the Trustee. Section .06. Notice by Company. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Payment Agent of any facts known to the Company that would cause a payment or distribution under or in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness to violate this Article, but failure to give such notice shall not affect the subordination of the Subordinated Indebtedness to the Senior Indebtedness provided in this Article. Section .07. Subrogation. After all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full and until the Securities are paid in full, Securityholders shall be subrogated to the rights of holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness to receive distributions applicable to Senior Indebtedness to the extent that distributions otherwise payable to the Securityholders have been applied to the payment of Senior Indebtedness. A distribution made under this Article to holders of Senior Indebtedness which otherwise would have been made to Securityholders is not, as between the Company and Securityholders, a payment by the Company on the Senior Indebtedness. Section .08. Relative Rights. This Article defines the relative rights of Securityholders and holders of Senior Indebtedness. Nothing in this Indenture shall: (1) impair, as between the Company and Securityholders, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay principal of and interest on the Securities in accordance with their terms; (2) affect the relative rights of Securityholders and creditors of the Company other than their rights in relation to holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness; or (3) other than as specifically set forth in this Indenture and, subject to the rights of holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness to receive distributions and payments otherwise payable to holders or owners of Subordinated Indebtedness, prevent the Trustee or any Securityholder from exercising its available remedies upon a Default or Event of Default. If the Company fails because of this Article to pay principal of or interest on a Security on the due date, the failure is still a Default or Event of Default. Section .09. Subordination May Not Be Impaired by Company. No right of any holder or owner of Senior Indebtedness to enforce the subordination of the Subordinated Indebtedness shall be impaired by any act or failure to act by the Company or by its failure to comply with this Indenture. Section .10. Distribution or Notice to Representative. Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders or owners of Senior Indebtedness, the distribution may be made and the notice given to their representative. Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction or upon any certificate of such representative or of the liquidating trustee or agent or other duly authorized person making any distribution to the Trustee or to the Securityholders for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders and owners of the Senior Indebtedness and other Indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article. Section .11. Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment or distribution by the Trustee and the Trustee or Paying Agent may continue to make payments on the Securities unless it shall have received at its Corporate Trust Office at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date of such payment written notice of facts that would cause the payment of any Subordinated Indebtedness to violate this Article. Only the Company, the Bank Agent, a representative or a holder or owner of an issue of Senior Indebtedness that has no representative may give the notice. Nothing in this Section is intended to or shall relieve any holder or owner of Subordinated Indebtedness from the obligations imposed under Section .05 with respect to moneys or other distributions received in violation of the provisions hereof. The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may hold Senior Indebtedness with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Paying Agent may do the same with like rights. Section .12. Authorization to Effect Subordination. (a) Each holder or owner of Subordinated Indebtedness by his acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination as provided in this Article, and appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes, including, in the event of any dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company (whether voluntary or involuntary, in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, arrangement, reorganization, or relief proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors or any marshalling of the assets and liabilities of the Company or any other similar remedy or otherwise), the immediate filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of the Subordinated Indebtedness in the form required in said proceedings and causing said claim to be approved. If the Trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in the form required in such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such claim or claims, then the holders and owners of Senior Indebtedness are hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the holders or owners of the Subordinated Indebtedness. (b) The Bank Agent is hereby authorized to demand specific performance of the provisions of this Article at any time when the holders or owners of the Subordinated Indebtedness or the Trustee shall have failed to comply with any of the provisions of this Article applicable to them. The holders or owners of the Subordinated Indebtedness and the Trustee hereby acknowledge that the provisions of this Article are intended to be enforceable at all times, whether before or after the commencement of a proceeding referred to in Section .02. In no event shall this Section .12 allow the holders of any Senior Indebtedness, as such, to vote the Subordinated Indebtedness. Section .13. Subordination May Not Be Impaired. No right of any holder of Senior Indebtedness to enforce the subordination of the Subordinated Indebtedness evidenced by the Securities shall be impaired by (i) any act or failure to act by the Company or by its failure to comply with this Indenture, (ii) any act or failure to act by holders of Senior Indebtedness which results, or may result, in effecting, impairing or extinguishing any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of the holders or owners of Subordinated Indebtedness, and (iii) any other act or failure to act by any holder of Senior Indebtedness regardless of any knowledge of any failure by the Company to comply with this Indenture that any such holder may have or otherwise be charged with. Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the holders or owners of Subordinated Indebtedness, without incurring responsibility to the holders or owners of Subordinated Indebtedness and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article or the obligations hereunder of the holders or owners of Subordinated Indebtedness to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, or increase or decrease the rate of interest or fees applicable to, Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release, foreclose upon or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Indebtedness; (iii) release any person liable in any manner for the payment or collection of Senior Indebtedness; (iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the Company and any other person; and (v) decrease or increase the principal amount of such Senior Indebtedness. Nothing in this Section .13 shall be construed as providing that if any Senior Indebtedness is paid in full, the subordination of the Subordinated Indebtedness is not released with respect to such Senior Indebtedness; provided that the provisions of this Article shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment in respect of Senior Indebtedness is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Bank Agent or any other holder or owner of Senior Indebtedness upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made. EXHIBIT A ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of June 15, 1994 (the "Credit Agreement") among LIN Cellular Network, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Borrower"), the Lenders party thereto (the "Lenders"), Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc., as administrative agent for the Lenders (together with any successor appointed pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the "Administrative Agent"), and The Bank of Nova Scotia and The Toronto-Dominion Bank, as managing agents for the Lenders (together with any successors appointed pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the "Managing Agents"). Terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein with the same meaning. The "Assignor" and the "Assignee" referred to on Schedule I agree as follows: 1. The Assignor hereby sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes from the Assignor, an interest in and to all of the Assignor's rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement as of the date hereof equal to the percentage interest specified on Schedule I of all outstanding rights and obligations under the Facility or Facilities specified on Schedule I other than the Assignor's right to receive payment under Section 2.10, 2.12 or 8.04 of the Credit Agreement. After giving effect to such sale and assignment, the Assignee's Commitments and the amount of the Advances owing to the Assignee will be as set forth on Schedule I. 2. The Assignor (i) represents and warrants that it is the legal and beneficial owner of the interest being assigned by it hereunder and that such interest is free and clear of any adverse claim; (ii) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; and (iii) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower, any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any Principal Cellular Partnership or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto. 3. The Assignee (i) confirms that it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 thereof and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Acceptance; (ii) agrees that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agents, the Assignor or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Credit Agreement; (iii) confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (iv) appoints and authorizes each of the Agents to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under the Credit Agreement as are delegated to such Agent by the terms thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto; (v) agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations that by the terms of the Credit Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender; (vi) specifies as its Domestic Lending Office (and address for notices), CD Lending Office, and LIBO Lending Office the offices set forth beneath its name on Schedule I hereto and (vii) if the Assignee is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States and such forms are required under Section 2.12(e) of the Credit Agreement, attaches the forms or documents required by such Section 2.12. 4. Following the execution of this Assignment and Acceptance, it will be delivered to the Administrative Agent for acceptance and recording by the Administrative Agent. The effective date for this Assignment and Acceptance (the "Effective Date") shall be the date of acceptance hereof by the Administrative Agent, unless otherwise specified on Schedule I. 5. Upon such acceptance and recording by the Administrative Agent, as of the Effective Date, (i) the Assignee shall be a party to the Credit Agreement and, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder and (ii) the Assignor shall, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under the Credit Agreement. 6. Upon such acceptance and recording by the Administrative Agent, from and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments under the Credit Agreement in respect of the interest assigned hereby (including, without limitation, all payments of principal, interest and commitment fees with respect thereto) to the Assignee. The Assignor and Assignee shall make all appropriate adjustments in payments under the Credit Agreement for periods prior to the Effective Date directly between themselves. 7. This Assignment and Acceptance shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. 8. This Assignment and Acceptance may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of Schedule I to this Assignment and Acceptance by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment and Acceptance. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Assignor and the Assignee have caused Schedule I to this Assignment and Acceptance to be executed by their officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date specified thereon. Schedule I to Assignment and Acceptance [As to each Facility in respect of which an interest is being assigned:] Percentage interest assigned: % Assignee's Commitment: $ Aggregate outstanding principal amount of Advances assigned: $ Effective Date (if other than date of acceptance by Administrative Agent): , 19 [NAME OF ASSIGNOR], as Assignor By Title: Dated: , 19 [NAME OF ASSIGNEE], as Assignee By Title: Domestic Lending Office: CD Lending Office: LIBO Lending Office: Accepted this day of , 19 [NAME OF ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT] By _________________________ Title: EXHIBIT C NOTICE OF BORROWING Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc., as Administrative Agent for the Lenders party to the Credit Agreement referred to below 909 Fannin Suite 1700 Houston, Texas 77010 June 20, 1994 Attention: Manager, Agency Gentlemen/Women: The undersigned, LIN Cellular Network, Inc., refers to the Credit Agreement dated as of June 15, 1994 (the "Credit Agreement", the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among the undersigned, the Lenders party thereto (the "Lenders"), Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc., as administrative agent for the Lenders, and The Bank of Nova Scotia and The Toronto-Dominion Bank, as managing agents for the Lenders, and hereby gives you notice, irrevocably, pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Credit Agreement that the undersigned hereby requests a Borrowing under the Credit Agreement, and in that connection sets forth below the information relating to such Borrowing (the "Proposed Borrowing") as required by Section 2.02(a) of the Credit Agreement: (i) The Business Day of the Proposed Borrowing is June 23, 1994. (ii) The Facility under which the Proposed Borrowing is requested is the Facility. (iii) The Type of Advances comprising the Proposed Borrowing is LIBO Rate Advances. (iv) The aggregate amount of the Proposed Borrowing is $ . (v) The Interest Period for each Advance made as part of the Proposed Borrowing is . (vi) The proceeds of the Proposed Borrowing will be used to [or to refinance a Borrowing]. The undersigned hereby certifies that the following statements are true on the date hereof, and will be true on the date of the Proposed Borrowing: (A) the representations and warranties contained in the Credit Agreement are correct on and as of the date of the Proposed Borrowing, before and after giving effect to the Proposed Borrowing and to the application of the proceeds therefrom, as though made on and as of such date (except to the extent that any such representation or warranty by its terms relates to a specified prior date); and (B) no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Proposed Borrowing or from the application of the proceeds therefrom, that constitutes a Default. Very truly yours, LIN CELLULAR NETWORK, INC. By ____________________________ Title: EXHIBIT E SOLVENCY CERTIFICATE I, , [Specify Office] of LIN Cellular Network, Inc. (the "Borrower"), hereby certify, for and on behalf of the Borrower and in my capacity as an officer, that I am the chief financial officer of the Borrower, that I am familiar with its properties, businesses, assets, finances and operations and that I am duly authorized to execute this Certificate on behalf of the Borrower, which is being delivered pursuant to Section 3.01(h)(ix) of the Credit Agreement, dated as of June 15, 1994 (the "Credit Agreement") among the Borrower, the Lenders named therein (the "Lenders"), Toronto Dominion (Texas) Inc., as Administrative Agent, and The Bank of Nova Scotia and The Toronto-Dominion Bank, as Managing Agents. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as therein defined unless otherwise defined herein. I further certify, for and on behalf of the Borrower and in my capacity as an officer, that I have reviewed the Credit Agreement and the contents of this Certificate and, in connection herewith, have made such investigation and inquiries as I deem necessary and appropriate therefor. I hereby further certify, for and on behalf of the Borrower and in my capacity as an officer, that: 1. On the date hereof, after giving effect to the Acquisitions and the consummation of the other transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement, the fair value of any and all property of the Borrower is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of the Borrower. 2. On the date hereof, after giving effect to the Acquisitions and the consummation of the other transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement, the present fair saleable value of the assets of the Borrower exceeds the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of the Borrower on its debts as they become absolute and matured. 3. In reaching the conclusions set forth in paragraphs 1 and 2 above, I have considered, among other things: (a) all contingent liabilities of the Borrower including, without limitation, claims arising out of pending or, to the best of my knowledge, threatened litigation against it, which liabilities have been computed at the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing on the date hereof, can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability; (b) the experience of the Affiliates of the Borrower in acquiring and disposing of properties forming part of the Borrower's business; (c) the valuations accorded Franchise Interests in recent acquisition transactions; (d) the terms of the Existing Partnership Agreements; and (e) the distribution practices of each of the Principal Cellular Partnerships including the amounts received or receivable by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries. 4. On the date hereof, after giving effect to the Acquisitions and the other transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement, the Borrower is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to be engaged in business or a transaction, for which its property would constitute an unreasonably small capital. 5. The Borrower does not intend to or believe that it will incur debts and liabilities that will be beyond its ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature. 6. In reaching the conclusions set forth in paragraphs 4 and 5 above, I have considered, among other things: (a) the experience of the Affiliates of the Borrower in acquiring and disposing of properties forming part of the Borrower's business; (b) the amortization requirements of the 1990 Credit Agreement and anticipated interest payable on the Advances under the Credit Agreement and on advances under the 1990 Credit Agreement; (c) the level of capital customarily maintained by the Borrower and other entities engaged in the same or similar business as the businesses of the Borrower; (d) the terms of the Existing Partnership Agreements; (e) the distribution practices of each of the Principal Cellular Partnerships including the amount of such distributions received or receivable by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries; and (f) any mandatory payment or prepayment under the Credit Agreement or the 1990 Credit Agreement. 7. The Borrower does not intend, in consummating the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement, to hinder, delay or defraud either present or future creditors. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused its [Specify Office] to execute this Certificate on its behalf this day of June, 1994. LIN CELLULAR NETWORK, INC. By Title: [Specify Office] EX-11 10 EXHIBIT 11 Statement re Computation of Per Share Earnings (Amounts in thousands except per share amounts) Year ended December 31, 1991 1992 1993 ------------------------------ Primary Average shares outstanding 51,565 51,445 51,417 Net effect of dilutive stock options based on the treasury stock method using the average market price 475 -- -- ------- ------- ------- Total 52,040 51,445 51,417 ======== ======== ======== Net Income (Loss) $564,150 $(60,727) $(68,952) ======== ======== ======== Per Share Amounts $10.94 $(1.18) $(1.34) ======== ======== ======== EX-21 11 EXHIBIT 21 SUBSIDIARIES OF THE REGISTRANT Cellular Long Distance Company (California Corporation) Cellular Long Distance Company (Texas Corporation) Cellular Systems, Inc. (New York Corporation) Cellular Telephone Company (New York General Partnership) Cellular Telephone Company Equipment Sales, Inc. (New Jersey Corporation) LC Acquisition Corporation (Delaware Corporation) LCH Holdings, Inc. (Delaware Corporation) LCH Communications, Inc. (Delaware Corporation) LCN Holdings, Inc. (Delaware Corporation) LIN Cellular Communications Corporation (California Corporation) LIN Cellular Communications Corporation (Delaware Corporation) LIN Cellular Communications Corporation (New York Corporation) LIN Cellular Communications Corporation (Texas Corporation) LIN Cellular Holdings, Inc. (New York Corporation) LIN Cellular of Houston, Inc. (Texas Corporation) LIN Cellular Network, Inc. (Delaware Corporation) LIN Holdings, Inc. (Delaware Corporation) LIN Long Distance (Texas), Inc. (Texas Corporation) LIN Michigan Broadcasting Corporation (Michigan Corporation MDS Holdings, Inc. (Washington Corporation) Satellite Communications Investments Corporation (Delaware Corporation) Litchfield Acquisition Corporation (Delaware Corporation) Metrocel Long Distance Company (Texas General Partnership) Metroplex Telephone Company (Texas General Partnership) Satellite Mobile Telephone Company (Limited Partnership) Southern California Cellular Consulting, Inc. (California Corporation) Transit Communications, Inc. (California Corporation) EX-23 12 EXHIBIT 23.1 Consent of Ernst & Young, Independent Auditors We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements (Form S-8 Nos. 33-39282 and 2-82944) of LIN Broadcasting Corporation and in the related Prospectus of our report dated January 20, 1995, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and schedules of LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and our report dated January 20, 1995, with respect to the combined financial statements and schedule of LIN Broadcasting Corporation's Unconsolidated Affiliates, included in the Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 1994. ERNST & YOUNG LLP Seattle, Washington March 28, 1995 EX-23 13 EXHIBIT 23.2 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT We consent to the incorporation by reference in Registration Statement No. 33-39282 of Lin Broadcasting Corporation on Form S-8 of our report dated February 18, 1994 (relating to the consolidated financial statements of AWACS, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 1993 and for the two years ended December 31, 1993 and 1992, not presented separately herein) appearing as an Exhibit to this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Lin Broadcasting Corporation for the year ended December 31, 1994. DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 28, 1995 EX-23 14 EXHIBIT 23.3 CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS To LIN Broadcasting Corporation: As independent public accountants, we hereby consent to the inclusion of our report dated February 23, 1994 on Garden State Cablevision L.P. in LIN Broadcasting Corporation's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1994 into LIN Broadcasting Corporation's previously filed Registration Statement File No. 33-39282. ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP Philadelphia, PA March 27, 1995 EX-24 15 EXHIBIT 24 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FORM 10-K The person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tom A. Alberg, Roberta R. Katz and Donald Guthrie, or any of them, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 1994 for LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and to sign any and all amendments to such Form 10-K, and other documents in connection therewith, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. Name: WILLIAM G. HERBSTER ------------------------- William G. Herbster Dated: 3/28/95 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FORM 10-K The person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tom A. Alberg, Roberta R. Katz and Donald Guthrie, or any of them, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 1994 for LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and to sign any and all amendments to such Form 10-K, and other documents in connection therewith, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. Name: WILMA H. JORDAN ------------------------- Wilma H. Jordan Dated: 3/27/95 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FORM 10-K The person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tom A. Alberg, Roberta R. Katz and Donald Guthrie, or any of them, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 1994 for LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and to sign any and all amendments to such Form 10-K, and other documents in connection therewith, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. Name: RICHARD W. KISLIK ------------------------- Richard W. Kislik Dated: 3/26/95 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FORM 10-K The person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tom A. Alberg, Roberta R. Katz and Donald Guthrie, or any of them, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 1994 for LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and to sign any and all amendments to such Form 10-K, and other documents in connection therewith, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. Name: HAROLD S. EASTMAN ------------------------- Harold S. Eastman Dated: 3/27/95 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FORM 10-K The person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tom A. Alberg, Roberta R. Katz and Donald Guthrie, or any of them, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 1994 for LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and to sign any and all amendments to such Form 10-K, and other documents in connection therewith, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. Name: STEVEN W. HOOPER ------------------------- Steven W. Hooper Dated: 3/27/95 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FORM 10-K The person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tom A. Alberg, Roberta R. Katz and Donald Guthrie, or any of them, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 1994 for LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Name: W. PRESTON GRANBERY ------------------------- W. Preston Granbery Dated: 3/30/95 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FORM 10-K The person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tom A. Alberg, Roberta R. Katz and Donald Guthrie, or any of them, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 1994 for LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Name: LEWIS M. CHAKRIN ------------------------- Lewis M. Chakrin Dated: 3/29/95 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FORM 10-K The person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tom A. Alberg, Roberta R. Katz and Donald Guthrie, or any of them, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 1994 for LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Name: ROLLA P. HUFF ------------------------- Rolla P. Huff Dated: 3/30/95 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FORM 10-K The person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Tom A. Alberg, Roberta R. Katz and Donald Guthrie, or any of them, his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 1994 for LIN Broadcasting Corporation, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Name: DENNIS J. CAREY ------------------------- Dennis J. Carey Dated: 3/31/95 EX-27 16
5 1,000 YEAR DEC-31-1994 DEC-31-1994 47,467 0 153,674 (17,395) 16,848 210,501 591,704 (141,006) 2,923,873 (382,449) (1,443,125) (553) 0 0 (297,185) (2,923,873) 0 (876,469) 0 138,579 513,580 18,200 111,638 (683,888) 59,289 (564,150) 0 0 0 (564,150) 10.84 10.84